What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
ABRAHAM VERGHESEGod 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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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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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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Why 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.
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Geography is destiny.
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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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