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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEAnd 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’.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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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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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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