I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
ABRAHAM VERGHESETell 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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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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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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