What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEMy sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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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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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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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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