"By visiting patients in their home, by helping……" — Abraham Verghese
"By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure."
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89 Quotes by Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese has 89 quotes on this site.
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It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no…
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today's country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone…
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of…
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging…
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
— Jane Austen
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself…
— Honore de Balzac
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
— Samuel Beckett
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
— Alfred Adler
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different…
— Jeff Bridges
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Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix…
— Bill Bryson
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Absence - that common cure of love.
— Lord Byron
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Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to…
— Joseph Campbell
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Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the…
— John Jay Chapman
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