I’ve had my share of angels.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEStudents 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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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Geography is destiny.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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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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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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