As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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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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