To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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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 use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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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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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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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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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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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.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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