I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEAt times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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