When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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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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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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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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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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