A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEPray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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