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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEGeography is destiny.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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I 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.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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