God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEHe had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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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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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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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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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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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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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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