When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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 writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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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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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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