How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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Geography is destiny.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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