What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
ABRAHAM VERGHESEAt times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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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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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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Geography is destiny.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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