Geography is destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEYesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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