Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhat we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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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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