"We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds."

-- Abraham Verghese

#Average Quotes #Physicians Quotes #Patient Quotes

“Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.”
“With independents[films] you sort of make them on the go and there is that little bit more creative freedom. You don't have the money to slow down!”
“I know that when I look at today's Mexicans and Central Americans, they seem to me fundamentally the same as my grandparents seeking a better life in America. On the other side, however, open immigration can't coexist with a strong social safety net; if you're going to assure health care and a decent income to everyone, you can't make that offer global. So Democrats have mixed feelings about immigration; in fact, it's an agonizing issue.”
“As we pass through the trials of life, let us keep an eternal perspective, let us not complain, let us become even more prayerful, let us serve others, and let us forgive one another. As we do this, 'all things [will] work together for good to [us] that love God.'”
“Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.”
“We are renters and borrowers and, in the end, only thieves.”
“Telling a one-sided story doesn't allow for others to have self-love.”

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“Maybe that's what is means to be human . . . forever questioning our certainties.”

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