A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEA rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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I 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.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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In 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.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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