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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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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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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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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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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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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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.
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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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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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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