Abraham Verghese Quotes - Page 4

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• 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 sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.

  Abraham Verghese

  Meaningful, Book, Writing

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• I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.

  Abraham Verghese

  Motivation, Believe, Inspiration

  "A doctor's touch". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• 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 always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.

  Abraham Verghese

  Spiritual, Jobs, Mean

  "A Novel That's the Best Medicine". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. February 11, 2009.

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• Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

  Abraham Verghese

  Mind, Bowels, Be Careful

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• Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.

  Abraham Verghese

  Uncles, School, Role Models

  "A Novel That's the Best Medicine". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. February 11, 2009.

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• When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

  Abraham Verghese

  Men, Mysterious, Mystery

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.26, Random House India

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• What we are fighting isn't godlessness--this is the most godly country on earth. We aren't even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines... that helps. When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.

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  Country, Godly, Fighting

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.115, Random House India

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• How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.

  Abraham Verghese

  Country, Treats, Brethren

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• Another day in paradise' was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.

  Abraham Verghese

  Paradise, Another Day, Precious Gifts

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