Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhat treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Geography is destiny.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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.
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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