"Students undergo a conversion in the third year……" — Abraham Verghese
"Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical."
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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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There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke…
— Margaret Atwood
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety,…
— Leonard Cohen
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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe…
— Leonard Cohen
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The best indicator of a sociopath serial bully is not a clinical diagnosis but the trail of devastation and destruction…
— Tim Field
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The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The…
— Wilfred Trotter
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In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of…
— Rollo May
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School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic…
— Robert D. Putnam
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According to this woman, who requested anonymity because of her current job as a clinical psychologist, "He and Randy came…
— Rand Paul
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That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we…
— Paul Nitze
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It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.
— Thom Yorke
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People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that…
— Bill Sienkiewicz
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