At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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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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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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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