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. .
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhat did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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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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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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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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