Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
ABRAHAM VERGHESETo be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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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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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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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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