We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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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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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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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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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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