Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIgnorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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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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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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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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