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James Maskalyk
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Graduation speech to Ethiopia’s first emergency doctors….
Biruk, Sofia, Yenalem, Seble….. You did it. I feel like there should be 84 million, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and sixty more people in this room. In fact, I feel like the whole world should be here, not just to celebrate your graduation as an occasion that marks a safer future for the […]
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“People who do this type of work talk about the rupture we feel on our return, an irreconcilable invisible difference between us and others. We talk about how difficult it is to assimilate, to assume routine, to sample familiar pleasures. The rift, of course, is not in the world: it is within us....The world is a hard place -- a beautiful place, but so too an urgent one. ... Once that urgency takes hold, it never completely lets go.”
― Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village
― Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village
“Answer me something. This life, where you get to meet people and know them, and become friends, and then in a few days or a few weeks, either they leave or you do...is it worth it? I am not sure. I think so. Maybe having your heart broken like that is what keeps it open.”
― Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village
― Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village
“To the world, it doesn’t matter that much. Until you remember that it means the world to the patient. One exact world, bright and full of sounds, per person. That is what is lost.”
― Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village
― Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village
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