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 of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
ABRAHAM VERGHESECertainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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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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 abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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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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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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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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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 get it or to keep it.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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