I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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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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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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