I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEBe careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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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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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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Geography is destiny.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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