Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESERituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIf we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI’ve had my share of angels.
ABRAHAM VERGHESECertainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
ABRAHAM VERGHESESometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEShe had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
ABRAHAM VERGHESEAnd pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEA discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEAnother day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWe have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWe’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE