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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
Physician
University Teacher
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Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key all else follows from it.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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.
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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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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.
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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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Geography is destiny.
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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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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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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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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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