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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhy settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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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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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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