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Abraham Verghese
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 1
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Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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 doctrine we embrace.
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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.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.
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It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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Don't Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret. Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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