Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in 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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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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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