Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
ABRAHAM VERGHESENow, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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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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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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