She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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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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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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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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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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Geography is destiny.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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