What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
ABRAHAM VERGHESENow, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Geography is destiny.
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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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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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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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 we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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