Being the first born gives you great patience.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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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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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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