The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWe know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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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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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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