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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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