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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI 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.
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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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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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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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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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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