Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEMy VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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When 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?’ ‘
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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 did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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