Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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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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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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