What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhen I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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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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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.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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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.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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