The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhat treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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Geography is destiny.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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