There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
ABRAHAM VERGHESEEmpathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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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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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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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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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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