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.
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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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