Make something beautiful of your life.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEA discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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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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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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