Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEYesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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I 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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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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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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