Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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