I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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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. .
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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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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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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