A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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