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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThere are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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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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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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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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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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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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