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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIgnorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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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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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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