Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEStill, 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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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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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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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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