Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
ABRAHAM VERGHESEStill, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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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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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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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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