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Abraham Verghese
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 1
Physician
University Teacher
Writer
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Fewer
Clothes
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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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 relationship.
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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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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 patient it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key all else follows from it.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
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