Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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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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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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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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