The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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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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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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