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Abraham Verghese has 89 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 one will…
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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 by, but…
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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. I had…
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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 the patient-physician…
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And,…
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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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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
— Louisa May Alcott
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I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that…
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose…
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I have a feeling that when my ship comes in I'll be at the airport.
— Charles M. Schulz
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Remember, Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide!
— Joshua Slocum
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My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound…
— Joshua Slocum
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I've never been lucky. The day my ship came in, I was at the airport.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should…
— Horatio Nelson
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I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.
— Stephen Stills
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If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
— Enoch Powell
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I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But…
— Thomas Merton
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And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will…
— Virginia Woolf
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