Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
ABRAHAM VERGHESETo be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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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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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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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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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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