I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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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’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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