Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThough I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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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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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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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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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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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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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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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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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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