Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEShe had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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