Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
ABRAHAM VERGHESENo blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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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