I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEA discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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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 most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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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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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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