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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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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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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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