Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEShe 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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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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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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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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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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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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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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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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