She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIgnorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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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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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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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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