I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEYou are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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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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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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I 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.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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