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.
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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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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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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Geography is destiny.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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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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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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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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