When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEBeing the first born gives you great patience.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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 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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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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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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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