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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThough I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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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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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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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