And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIgnorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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