Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEFor one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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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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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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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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