Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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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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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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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