Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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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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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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