When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEFor one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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’ve had my share of angels.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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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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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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