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ABRAHAM VERGHESEYour 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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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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