We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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According 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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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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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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