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 VERGHESEWhat treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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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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Geography is destiny.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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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;.
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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 we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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