Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIt’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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