black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.

Abraham Verghese

Related Topics

Basic Cared Feel Human Life Patient Right Save

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Board Digit Jumped Number Pray Shiva Two Uninvited Wrote Zero
What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Book Clothes Fewer Man Men
Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Even Fascinated Knowledge More Wisdom
Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Bowel Careful Expand Loosen Mind Travel
I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Become Found Grew Physician Purpose Up
According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Broken End Fixing Generation Hole Metaphors Precisely Shiva Task
When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Basic Cared Feel Human Life Patient Right Save
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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Care God Human Being Judge Judging Relieve Suffering Thinking
She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Calmness Emergency Falseness Familiar Fashion Feeling Felt Medicine
A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Bag Beautiful Black Caring Collection Country Literary Remove Romantic
…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Action Guilt Lead Rarely Right Righteous
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Beyond Common Death Early Lucky Purpose Unbidden
When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Another Gift Morning Sight Sunrise Wake
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?
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Cancer Flip Leave Mind People Side Suicide
We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Disease Fighting Food Help Medicine Money Poverty
I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Believe Black Future Hoe Past Smack Universe

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes