There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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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 greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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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 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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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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