Best Abraham Verghese Quotes
- There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's… Ago
- Being the first born gives you great patience. Born
- What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of… Came
- Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical. Clinical
- My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is… Body
- I'm a great believer in geography being destiny. Believer
- Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam. Clumsy
- For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and… Airport
- By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure. Cure
- In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina. Cuts
- In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with… Always Taken
- There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the… Always Wanted
- When I use the word 'healing,' by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's… Addressing
- 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,… Admit
- According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's… According
- This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the… Ancient
- 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… Chasing
- The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not. Action
- You live it forward, but understand it backward. Backward
- The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you… Action
- Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny. Action
- 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… Beings
- ...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action. Action
- 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… Believe
- Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted Definition
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