black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

Abraham Verghese

Related Topics

Average Healthcare Physicians

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Clumsy Exam Getting Heartbeat Patient
How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Brethren Country Least Measure Treat
As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Bent Child Death Entirely Over Realized She Tragedy Unfulfilled
It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Leave Lifetime Much Next Generation Task Unfinished
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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Conscious Exact Moment Professor Teacher Trotting Year
I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Anybody Love Poetry Read Reading Show Willing Written
I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Become Found Grew Physician Purpose Up
My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Deathbed Heart Mean Patient People Regret VIP
We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Average Healthcare Physicians
No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Barber Bleeding Cupping Giving Matter Purging Surgeon Teeth
In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Comfort Ears Emergencies Treatment Word
Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Bowel Careful Expand Loosen Mind Travel
At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Advance Medicine Technology Time Today Variety
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 VERGHESE

Body Feeling Leave Physician Sense Technology Visualize Wonderful
We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Disease Fighting Food Help Medicine Money Poverty
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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Endeavor Good Heart Human Key Limitless Medicine Requiring Science Thinking

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes