You live it forward, but understand it backward.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhat did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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And 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’.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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