The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEAnd then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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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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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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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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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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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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