The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEA beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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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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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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