If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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