I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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