If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
ABRAHAM VERGHESELife for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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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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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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