How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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