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Them Quotes by Abraham Verghese
- I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end…
- We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end…
- By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
- Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity,…
- I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational,…
- So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having…
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