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.
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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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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 was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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Geography is destiny.
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