Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIn an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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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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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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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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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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