Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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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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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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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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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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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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