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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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Geography is destiny.
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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