What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThere 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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Geography is destiny.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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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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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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I 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?
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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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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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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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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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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