Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIf seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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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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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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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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