black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

Abraham Verghese

Related Topics

Cynicism Empathy Lesson Real Replaced

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Best Computer Hospitalized Important Patient Screen Understand Way
It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Eerie Feeling Mentor Mouthpiece Old Room Shoe
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
They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Church Eulogy Legacy Matter Money Procession Realize Remove Service
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 VERGHESE

Bag Beautiful Black Caring Collection Country Literary Remove Romantic
Geography is destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Culture Destiny Geography Gift Offering Past Tradition Wisdom
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
If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Allow Fellow Make Nothing Observation Opportunity Prolonged Traveler
No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Barber Bleeding Cupping Giving Matter Purging Surgeon Teeth
For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Airports Body Country Doe Information Interest Opportunity Treasure
In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Always Attack Battle Cancer Country Poison Taken
I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Access Blessed Care Country Health Insured Kind Thinking
Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Even Fascinated Knowledge More Wisdom
Make something beautiful of your life.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Beautiful Create Dream Journey Life m Wonder Something
I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Believe Cat Hospital Inspiration Joke Limb Missing Motivation Scan
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

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes