A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIn an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE