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47 quotes by Abraham Verghese

Abraham Verghese Verghese in 2011 Born Abraham Verghese 1955 (age 59–60) Ethiopia Occupation Professor of medicine, author of three best-selling books Nationality American Alma mater Madras Medical College, Madras, now Chennai Period 1980 to present Genre medical book, autobiography, novel Notable works My Own Country, The Tennis Partner, Cutting for Stone Website www.abrahamverghese.com Abraham Verghese (born 1955) is a...
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as... →

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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

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I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

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As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus... →

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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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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's... →

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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste... →

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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy... →

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There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me... →

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I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly... →

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My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and... →

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I joke, but only half joke, that if you show up in an American hospital missing a finger, no one will believe you until they get a CAT scan, MRI and... →

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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... →

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