Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese
Abraham Vergheseis a physician-author, Professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford University Medical School and Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine. He is also the author of three best-selling books, two memoirs and a novel. In 2011, he was elected to be a member of the Institute of Medicine...
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sacred ordinary intrusion
If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
ignorance grew proportion
Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
escaping climbing tree
He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him...
teaching taught dies
He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.
teacher years eerie
There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
uncles school role-models
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, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
snakes slides enough
The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
paradise another-day precious-gifts
Another day in paradise' was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
self-confidence seductive firsts
To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
loyalty broken secret
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 has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
incentives instead lets patients
Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We don't need to do comparative effectiveness trials to see if that works; we can just ask patients.
centuries developed pool rays
When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense.
bedside best computer figure patient screen staring taking whose
I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient whose care I am taking over 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.
best job lest resent
Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.