Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThere is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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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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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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