Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
ABRAHAM VERGHESETell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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Geography is destiny.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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We 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.
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