God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEGeography is destiny.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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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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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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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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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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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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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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