The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhen we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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