Geography is destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWe know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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