She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
ABRAHAM VERGHESEShe had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI 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?
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThis is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhat we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEBe careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIn writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEEmpathy can be replaced by cynicism.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhen a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThere is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
ABRAHAM VERGHESEHow we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThey realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWe have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe 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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThere is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
ABRAHAM VERGHESE