What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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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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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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