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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEYesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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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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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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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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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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