I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhen 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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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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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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 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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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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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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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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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 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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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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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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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