black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.

Abraham Verghese

Related Topics

Empathy Huge Learning Medical Need Process School Sight Volume

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Cancer Flip Leave Mind People Side Suicide
The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Black Country Day Doctor Image Medicine Revisited Romantic Rural Technology
What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Book Clothes Fewer Man Men
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Action Become Destiny Omisison
Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Even Fascinated Knowledge More Wisdom
What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Empathy Huge Learning Medical Need Process School Sight Volume
I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Angry Dream Feeling Hurt Loved Myself Togetherness Unreasonable
The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Hand Human Important Innovation Inspiration Medicine Motivation Ten Year
When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Call Hardly Himself Man Mysterious Mystery
We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Broken Fixing Generations Next Unfinished
I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Endeavor Good Heart Human Key Limitless Medicine Requiring Science Thinking
…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Action Guilt Lead Rarely Right Righteous
Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Absurdity Arrive Descend Hole Job Place Point Preserve relief Yourself
Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Clinical Conversion Cynical Medical School Student Undergo Year
If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Always Bitter Feeding Keep Promise Saying Searching Slipper
It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Alive Currency Memories Memory Proof Stories

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes