"My VIP patients often regret so many things……" — Abraham Verghese
"My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit."
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89 Quotes by Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese has 89 quotes on this site.
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It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no…
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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…
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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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…
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging…
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a…
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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
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Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother,…
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I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that…
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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
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Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
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How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
— Albert Camus
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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
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