About Quote by Abraham Verghese

Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to…

— Diane Frolov

“Boy, you really break things down, don't you?' Some say it is an illness.' We should all be so ill.”

— Francisco X. Stork

“Ignore ignorance? You might as well withhold medicine from a very sick patient. Not only will the patient get worse, the disease will spread.”

— Stifyn Emrys

Everything but truth becomes loathed in a sick-room ... Let the nurse avow that the medicine is nauseous. Let the physician declare that the…

— Harriet Martineau

We all need to be able to see a Doctor when we're sick.

— Maya Wiley

“Some time way back in the latter half of my internship, I gave up the idea of saving lives and became more comfortable with…

— Mikkael A. Sekeres

“An awareness of illness doesn’t mean you’re well,”

— Anders de La Motte

I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't…

— Conor Oberst

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want…

— Anna Deavere Smith

I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal…

— Marcia Wallace

“Inasmuch as a great part of what doctors know is taught them by the sick, they are easily led to believe that this knowledge…

— Marcel Proust

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

— Marcel Proust