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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

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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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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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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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.
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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