The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhen I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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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 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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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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