In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhat we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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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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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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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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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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 I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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