Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEEmpathy can be replaced by cynicism.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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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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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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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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When 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.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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