How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIn America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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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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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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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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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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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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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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