Average Quote by Abraham Verghese Download Open image “We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.” — Abraham Verghese ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Average Healthcare Inspirational Knows Medicine Patience Patient Physicians Seconds
On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story. — Jerome Groopman Copy Share Image
You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in which the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We would like doctors to listen, but the fact is, we better be ready to be able to talk to them. You're going to… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
The freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him. If the patient is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
In the future we'll all have 15 minutes of fame and 15 minutes of healthcare. — Nicole Hollander Copy Share Image
Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
“80. It normally takes 5-9 minutes for most healthy people to fall asleep.” — Lena Shaw 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
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature. — Buck Martinez Copy Share Image
The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. ... But the differences between us and… — Richard G. Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I really focus more to hit for average, just try to put the ball in play as much as I can. — Juan Soto Copy Share Image
You give me enough shots, I'll average 20. You give me a particular system where I stick close to the basket, I'll average 10 rebounds. — Chris Bosh Copy Share Image
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis. — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice… — George Will Copy Share Image
My phone rings, they call me up and say, 'Chael, your testosterone level is too high.' I say, 'Well, how high was it?' They… — Chael Sonnen Copy Share Image
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
