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
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIf seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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Geography is destiny.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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