If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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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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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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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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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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