We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThere is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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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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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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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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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