What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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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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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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