The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEYou live it forward, but understand it backward.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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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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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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