Abraham Verghese Quotes

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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.
• We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
• I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till…
• What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
• A beautiful literary collection that tells of today's country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an…
• Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
• Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who,…
• The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
• We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
• No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if…
• In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
• Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?
• Don't Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret. Sandip Roy…
• She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
• What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
• When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
• I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the…
• Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps…
• The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
• 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…

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