Abraham Verghese Quotes About Healthcare

Quotes about: Healthcare

• The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

  Abraham Verghese

  Motivation, Inspiration, Hands

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

  Abraham Verghese

  Average, Physicians, Healthcare

• 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.

  Abraham Verghese

  Motivation, Believe, Inspiration

  "A doctor's touch". TED Talks, www.ted.com. July 2011.

• No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it.

  Abraham Verghese

  Giving, Teeth, Matter

• In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.

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  Comfort, Ears, Emergencies

• 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.

  Abraham Verghese

  Motivation, Believe, Inspiration

  "A doctor's touch". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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