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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More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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Geography is destiny.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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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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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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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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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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