Geography is destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEAs she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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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.
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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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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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.
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I 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.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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