What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI’ve had my share of angels.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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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 an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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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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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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