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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.

Abraham Verghese

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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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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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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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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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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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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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I 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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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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