"I think we can see how blessed we……" — Abraham Verghese
"I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether."
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Abraham Verghese
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89 Quotes by Abraham Verghese
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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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One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access…
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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one…
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I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're…
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Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.
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Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams,…
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I know there's been a lot that's been said about animated voice work, as though it's 'you can do this…
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Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.
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Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.
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Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims…
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You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all…
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