To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEYou live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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