Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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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 joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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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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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 matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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