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 VERGHESEAnd then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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