When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
ABRAHAM VERGHESECertainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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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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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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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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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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