She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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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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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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