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 VERGHESEIn writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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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 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.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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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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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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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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