In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE
Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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.
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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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.
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