No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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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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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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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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