When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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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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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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