Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE
Still, 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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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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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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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