Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhen we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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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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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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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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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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Geography is destiny.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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