Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE
Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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’.
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