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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snakes slides enough
The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
suicide cancer people
The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
motivation believe inspiration
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.
yesterday vanity riches
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
school years cynical
Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
thinking people scripture
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.
mind bowels be-careful
Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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
advice good job pays pressure takes writers
My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.
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.
consider dogs dreamed
So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
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.