What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE
I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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 crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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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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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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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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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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