What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEBy visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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