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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIgnorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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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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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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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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