Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESENot only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Geography is destiny.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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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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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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