black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

Abraham Verghese

Related Topics

Clinical Conversion Cynical Medical School Student Undergo Year

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Ecstasy Happened Intrusion Ordinary Sacred Sudden
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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Chasing Died Each Elsewhere Greatness Hand never Saw Seeking Time
No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Blade Heart Human Parenting Puncture Son Spiteful
I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Always Book Contributing Country Middle Sense Wanted Write
By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Helping Home Patient
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Bottom Care Health Line Patient Physician Reform
If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Battle Beat Cancer Fortunate Long Posthumously Praised Succumbed
It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Alive Currency Memories Memory Proof Stories
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
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Admit Certainly Doctor Intent Myself One Subconsciously World Young
Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Favorite Mathematics Number Pray Praying Share Tell
Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Another Day Gift Inevitable Paradise Pillow Precious Pronouncement Settled
The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

By Dream Success Hard Work Know Only Way
Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Backward Caught Forward Life Look Near Stop Understand Wheel
How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Brethren Country Least Measure Treat
We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Capacity Great Medicine Patient Sense Student Suffering Year
Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Broken Evocative Family Lovely Loyalty Secret Share Stay Told

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes