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.
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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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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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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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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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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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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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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