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 don’t.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEHow we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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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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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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