He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEBy visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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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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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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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. .
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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