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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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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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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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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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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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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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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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