I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe 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?
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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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?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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