…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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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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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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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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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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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