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Abraham Verghese

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Abraham Verghese
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 1
Physician
University Teacher
Writer
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
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Something
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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 work required to get it or to keep it.
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?....I met his gaze and I did not blink. Words of comfort, I said to my father.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?... Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223... And pray, why would this number interest us? It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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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 the patient-physician relationship.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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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.
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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, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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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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