Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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Geography is destiny.
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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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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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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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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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