Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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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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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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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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