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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

Abraham Verghese

I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Always Book Contributing Country Middle Sense Wanted Write
I 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 VERGHESE

Ancient Apprentice Become Down Due Look Master Paid Ship
I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Endeavor Good Heart Human Key Limitless Medicine Requiring Science Thinking
Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Broken Family Ground Indian Modern New Read Sandip Roy Tale
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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Best Computer Hospitalized Important Patient Screen Understand Way
A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Covered Earth Fault Man Money Surgeon
I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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Hookworm Hunger People Scripture Thinking
The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

By Dream Success Hard Work Know Only Way
Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Definition Home House Question Wanted
Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Dynamic Grew Ignorance Knowledge Proportion Same
He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Die Laugh Life Live Manner Taught Teaching
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. .
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

God Instrument Leave Play Sitting Son Three
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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Addressing Anyone Broken Job Leg Medicine Terrible Trip
Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Another Day Gift Inevitable Paradise Pillow Precious Pronouncement Settled
I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Age Care Constant Dream Dying Feeling Hearing People Taking Transient
How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Brethren Country Least Measure Treat

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