Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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.
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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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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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