I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEYesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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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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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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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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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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