Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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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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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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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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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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