We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhat treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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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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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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