We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThere is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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 still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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