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Medical Quotes by Abraham Verghese
- 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,…
- I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and…
- We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end…
- What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of…
- Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
More Medical Quotes
- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. — Enid Bagnold
- Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood… — Anita Baker
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil
- People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. — Martha Beck
- The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction. — Alfred Adler
- Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established. — Wendell Berry
- Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. — Ambrose Bierce
- Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. — Erma Bombeck