Geography is destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEMy VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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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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