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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI’ve had my share of angels.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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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.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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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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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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