I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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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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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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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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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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