It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIt is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIf it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI 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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI’ve had my share of angels.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThere is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
ABRAHAM VERGHESEShe had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
ABRAHAM VERGHESEStill, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
ABRAHAM VERGHESESandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
ABRAHAM VERGHESEPray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
ABRAHAM VERGHESENo blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEYou live it forward, but understand it backward.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEPatients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
ABRAHAM VERGHESECertainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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