Abraham Verghese Quotes - Page 4

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

  Abraham Verghese

  Mind, Bowels, Be Careful

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• Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals

  Abraham Verghese

  Meals

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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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• I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

  Abraham Verghese

  Shows, Love To Read, Willing

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• Geography is destiny.

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  Destiny, Geography

  Abraham Verghese (2016). “My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and its People in the Age of AIDS”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.

  Abraham Verghese

  Blessed, Thinking, America

  Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. March 14, 2010.

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• She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.

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  Children, Years, Tragedy

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• If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

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  Ordinary, Sacred, Intrusion

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.375, Random House India

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