The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Geography is destiny.
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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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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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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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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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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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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