I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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