Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEFor one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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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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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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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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