In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhen 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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