If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
ABRAHAM VERGHESENot only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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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 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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Geography is destiny.
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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