"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 interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it."

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Source : Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. March 14, 2010.

Abraham Verghese

#Heart Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Medicine Quotes

“The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists.”

Source : Quoted in Nat Shapiro, An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music (1978)
“When you grow up in the Soviet society under the communists you heard about the one man who is especially dangerous, especially crazy, and absolutely mad, and which would destroy all the human beings and the economies and so on, and this man was called Milton Friedman.”

Source : Interview with Stephen J. Dubner, 'Freakonomics Radio' podcast, March 24, 2010.
“I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off.”
“There's more tension in golf than in boxing because golfers bring it on themselves. It's silly really because it's not as if the golf ball is going to jump up and belt you on the whiskers, is it?”
“I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.”
“There is no apology from any Muslim leader for all the massacres of Christians”
“Women in America... cannot trust Mitt Romney to protect our health.”
“By the tons it is coming into this country - the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but the very heart and soul of every human being who once becomes a slave to it in any of its cruel and devastating forms. Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters. Hasheesh makes a murderer who kills for the love of killing out of the mildest mannered man who ever laughed at the idea that any habit could ever get him.”

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