My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEMy VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
ABRAHAM VERGHESENo blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWe aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI 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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIgnorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEMy intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIn writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEMy sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWe must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWe know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIn America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEMake something beautiful of your life.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE