A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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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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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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