No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEYesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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