Clumsy Quote by Abraham Verghese Download Open image “Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.” — Abraham Verghese ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clumsy Exam Heartbeat Know Patience Patient Patients
My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
A lot of patients you know if you haven't seen them for 6 months or a year, you won't remember what medicines they're on… — William Davis Copy Share Image
One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn very deeply… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It's very easy to not know the stuff that you should know about the patient when you're seeing them. It's much easier with an… — William Davis Copy Share Image
When it comes to screening, a doctor who says Lets err on the side of caution, may actually err on the side of reckless… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But at the most basic level, doctors need to be able to come forward with their errors and near-misses, otherwise we will never know… — Danielle Ofri Copy Share Image
Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the core of the medical approach is that you… — Guy Burgess Copy Share Image
“We EDS patients are accustomed to being doctors’ first cases of something in virtually every medical specialty. We’re just as used to being dismissed and sometimes ridiculed by the doctors we pay to take care of us, having to find one who’ll even do the tests we need, and eventually being told we were right (when all we really wanted… — Michael Bihovsky Copy Share
Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country,… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“Do they listen?" He held up a finger. "Every year one does," he said, ginning, "But that one makes it worthwhile. Even Jesus only… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“It seems we humans never learn. And so we relearn the lesson every generation and then want to write epistles. We proselytize to our… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“There it was, Hema must have thought; it was both the sorry and the thank-you that was so long overdue, and the funny thing… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“This is my life, I thought, as my taxi slogged through heavy traffic and inched through the tunnel to Logan Airport. I have excised… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“I could see that the almost mystical aura of this legendary surgeon -- the single-mindedness, the dedication, the skill -- was mere surface. The… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“As a child I'd longed for Thomas Stone or at least the idea of him. So many mornings I waited for him at the… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“The reader, knowing nothing about the ‘dark continent,’ filled in the blanks. Pictured Stone in a tent, kerosene lamp held up by a Hottentot… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
At 15 I was very clumsy, big feet and my footwork wasn't great. I was definitely not quick. — Alex de Minaur Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical… It reduces wisdom to impotence and… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say government can't… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
I am very, very old-fashioned and clumsy. I use those long reporter notebooks. This is what a troglodyte I am. The night before I… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The underlying crime in Watergate was a clumsy, third-rate burglary in an election campaign that turned out to be a landslide. — George T. Conway III Copy Share Image
I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“His life was a constant war with insensate objects that fell apart, or attacked him, or refused to function, or viciously got themselves lost… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be! And with… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, I'm a bit clumsy with technology. It's probably why I'm so excited about the touchscreen - even an idiot can… — Bjork Copy Share Image
