Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWe are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Geography is destiny.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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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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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.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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