No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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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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Geography is destiny.
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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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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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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