The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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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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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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