I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEAccording 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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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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