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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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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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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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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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