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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Geography is destiny.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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