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.
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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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The 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?
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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