How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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?
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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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?
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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