We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWe know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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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.
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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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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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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