I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
ABRAHAM VERGHESEGod will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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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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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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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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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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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 joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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