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’.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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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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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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