Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
ABRAHAM VERGHESEStudents undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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