The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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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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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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