Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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 grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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