Being the first born gives you great patience.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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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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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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