This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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