What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEYour job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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