Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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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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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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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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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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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