…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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I 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.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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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.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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