I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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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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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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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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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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