We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIgnorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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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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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