Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIt was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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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 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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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