I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
ABRAHAM VERGHESELife for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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