To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEYou live it forward, but understand it backward.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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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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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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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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