"How we treat the least of our brethren,...……" — Abraham Verghese
"How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country."
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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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The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the…
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