Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWe know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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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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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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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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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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