He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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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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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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