By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure..

According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt….

We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation..

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….

Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably no….

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action..

I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate..

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches..

What we are fighting isn't godlessness--this is the most godly country on earth. We aren't even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medici….

Geography is destiny..

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?"... "Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223"... "And pray, why would this number in….

I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody..

This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed….

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….

My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste o….

The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been..

How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country..

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 su….

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son..

She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to….

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….