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

Abraham Verghese

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Abraham Verghese
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 1
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Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it. The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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