I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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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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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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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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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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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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