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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wheels looks caught
Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
patient exam heartbeat
Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
emergencies ears treatment
What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
heart son parenting
No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
grief capacity results
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
morning sight sunrise
When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
thank-you blessed angel
That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.
destiny geography
Geography is destiny.
blessed thinking america
I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.
reform care lines
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
important way patient
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.
dream people feelings
I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.
medicine feelings emergencies
She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
way where-you-are knows
The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.