Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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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 think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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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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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Geography is destiny.
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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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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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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