Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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