A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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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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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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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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My 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.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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