The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEAnother 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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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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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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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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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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, 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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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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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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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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