It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWe 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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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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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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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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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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