Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIf you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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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 we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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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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