Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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And 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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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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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 settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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