What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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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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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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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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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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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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