You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
ABRAHAM VERGHESESandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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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.
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