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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

Abraham Verghese

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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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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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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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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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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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