If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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