Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI 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 had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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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 greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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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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I 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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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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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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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