Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhen we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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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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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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I’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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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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