Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
ABRAHAM VERGHESECertainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
ABRAHAM VERGHESESandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIn America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWe have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIt is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
ABRAHAM VERGHESENo blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThough I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThere is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
ABRAHAM VERGHESEA 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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEBy visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThat’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
ABRAHAM VERGHESENot only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThis is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhy is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEAt 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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