She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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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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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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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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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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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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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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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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