It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWe know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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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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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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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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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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