I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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