The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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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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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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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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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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