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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.

Abraham Verghese

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. .
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

God Instrument Leave Play Sitting Son Three
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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Endeavor Good Heart Human Key Limitless Medicine Requiring Science Thinking
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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Beyond Common Death Early Lucky Purpose Unbidden
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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Best Computer Hospitalized Important Patient Screen Understand Way
When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Call Hardly Himself Man Mysterious Mystery
That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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Angel Back Blessed Country Funny Hold People Thank You Thing
The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Crookedness Enough Serpent Slide Snake
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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Bag Beautiful Black Caring Collection Country Literary Remove Romantic
We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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Believe Herat Inspiration Motivation Patient Transcendent
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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Bent Child Death Entirely Over Realized She Tragedy Unfulfilled
I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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Hookworm Hunger People Scripture Thinking
Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Bach Blind Gloria Live Mice Play Settle Three Yours
By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Helping Home Patient
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Anthropologist Baptism Inauhrating President Ritual Transformation Use
Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Country Interlude Less Life Meal More
The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Hand Human Important Innovation Inspiration Medicine Motivation Ten Year

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