When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEEmpathy can be replaced by cynicism.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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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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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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