It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEBeing the first born gives you great patience.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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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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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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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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