Auswahl aus Abraham a S. Clara (Kleine Texte für Vorlesungen und Übungen, 76) Quotes

“The patients were earthy and appreciative and spoke a brand of English that made diagnosis a special challenge. Who knew that 'fireballs in the overus' meant uterine fibroids, or that ‘smiling mighty Jesus’ meant spinal meningitis? Or that ‘roaches in the liver’ meant cirrhosis? Soon, ‘high blood’ (hypertension), ‘low blood’ (anemia) and ‘bad blood’ (syphilis) became part of my own vocabulary as I obtained a patient's medical history.”
― Abraham Verghese, Auswahl aus Abraham a S. Clara (Kleine Texte für Vorlesungen und Übungen, 76)