To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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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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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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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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