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 VERGHESENot only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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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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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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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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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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