We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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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 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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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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