She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhen I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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Geography is destiny.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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