The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhat treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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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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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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