Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWe aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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