Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI’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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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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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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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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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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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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