We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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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 aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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