Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
ABRAHAM VERGHESENot only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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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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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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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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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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