…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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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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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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God 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.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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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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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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