Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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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’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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