That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
ABRAHAM VERGHESENow, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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Geography is destiny.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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