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.
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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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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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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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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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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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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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Geography is destiny.
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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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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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