Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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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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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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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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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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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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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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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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