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Abraham Verghese

Abraham Verghese (born 1955) is an Indian American 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. He received the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama in 2015.

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

Patient, Exam, Heartbeat, Know, Patients, Clumsy

We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

Broken, Generations, Leave, Task, Tasks

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.

Fact, Heart, Lose, Selfish, Spirit, Winning

By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.

Cure, Helping, Home, Patient, Patients

A beautiful literary collection that tells of today's country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations. At times, with today's advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America's cities, but the variety of practices is enormous. The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.

Beautiful, Caring, Country, Somewhat, Tells, Trials

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.

Backward, Caught, Life, Like, Looks, Wheels

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

Cynical, Medical, School, Years

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

Contemptible, Riches, Valuable, Vanity, Yesterday

When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

Men, Mysterious, Mystery, Call

. . . guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

Action, Guilt, Right, Righteous

Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

Actions, Become, Destiny, Omission, Our Actions

It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

Memories, Stories, Alive, Memory, Currency

She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life. . . As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.

Children, Death, Life, Tragedy, Years

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

Broken, Lovely, Loyalty, Modern, Rich, Roy

According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

Broken, Divides, Fixing, Next, Occurs, Precisely

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

Enough, Slide, Slides, Snake, Snakes

Being the first born gives you great patience.

Born, Firsts, Gives, Giving, Patience

I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.

Believe, Inspiration, Motivation, Mri, Scan, Till

God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

Cares, Human, Judging, Relieve, Suffering, Thinking

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.

America, Blessed, Insured, Problem, Thinking

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