A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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 are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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