Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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