Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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Geography is 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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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