I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEShe had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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