Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEA rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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