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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEPatients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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