Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
ABRAHAM VERGHESENo blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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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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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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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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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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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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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