The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhy 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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Geography is destiny.
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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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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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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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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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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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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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