The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEAnd pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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