Abraham Verghese Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

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

  Abraham Verghese

  School, Years, Cynical

• What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it. The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

  Abraham Verghese

  School, Sight, Empathy

  "'Literature about medicine may be all that can save us'" by Andrew Solomon, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2016.

• Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.

  Abraham Verghese

  Uncles, School, Role Models

  "A Novel That's the Best Medicine". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. February 11, 2009.

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