I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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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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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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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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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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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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