And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWe must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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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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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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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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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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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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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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