Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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I 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.
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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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