If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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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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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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