Abraham Verghese Quotes

• ¿No era esa la definición de hogar? No de dónde vienes, sino dónde te quieren

  Abraham Verghese

  Home, Definitions, Where You Are

  "Cutting for Stone". Book by Abraham Verghese. Chapter 6: "My Abyssinia", 2009.

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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.

  Abraham Verghese

  Heart, Thinking, Keys

  Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. March 14, 2010.

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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.

  Abraham Verghese

  School, Sight, Empathy

  "'Literature about medicine may be all that can save us'" by Andrew Solomon, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2016.

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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.

  Abraham Verghese

  Father, Comfort, Ears

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• Llegamos a esta vida sin ser llamados y, si tenemos suerte, encontramos un propósito más allá del hambre, la miseria y la muerte prematura que, no lo olvidemos, es el destino común. Yo crecí y encontré mi propósito, que era convertirme en médico. Mi intención no era salvar el mundo, sino curarme a mí mismo. Pocos médicos lo admitirán, desde luego no los jóvenes, pero inconscientemente, al entrar en la profesión, debemos creer que atender a los demás curará nuestras heridas. Y puede hacerlo, pero también puede ahondar la herida.

  Abraham Verghese

  Believe, Doctors, Physicians

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• The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

  Abraham Verghese

  Motivational, Destiny, Keys

  "Cutting for Stone". Book by Abraham Verghese, www.sfgate.com. 2009.

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• Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

  Abraham Verghese

  Fascinado

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• You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can can play the 'Gloria'? No, not Bach's 'Gloria.' Yours! Your 'Gloria' lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.

  Abraham Verghese

  Son, Play, Three

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• The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

  Abraham Verghese

  Motivation, Inspiration, Hands

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• In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

  Abraham Verghese

  Writing, Cutting, Medicine

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• Los estudiantes experimentan una conversión en el tercer año de la facultad de medicina, no de preclínico a clínico, sino de pre-cínico a cínico.

  Abraham Verghese

  School, Years, Cynical

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• Ninguna cuchilla puede perforar el corazón humano como las palabras bien elegidas de un hijo rencoroso.

  Abraham Verghese

  Heart, Son, Parenting

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• You live it forward, but understand it backward.

  Abraham Verghese

  Life, Inspire

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.11, Random House India

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• A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

  Abraham Verghese

  Men, Earth, Faults

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.121, Random House India

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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.

  Abraham Verghese

  Important, Way, Patient

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• We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

  Abraham Verghese

  Average, Physicians, Healthcare

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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.

  Abraham Verghese

  Home, Helping, Patient

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• Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

  Abraham Verghese

  Destiny, Omission, Our Actions

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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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  Dream, People, Feelings

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• Esta es mi vida, pensé... He extirpado el cáncer de mi pasado, lo he extirpado; he cruzado las altas llanuras, he descendido al desierto, he atravesado océanos y he plantado mis pies en tierra nueva; he sido el aprendiz, he pagado mis cuotas y acabo de convertirme en el amo de mi barco. Pero cuando miro hacia abajo, ¿por qué veo aún pegadas a mis pies las antiguas zapatillas, alquitranadas y manchadas de barro, que enterré al comienzo del viaje?

  Abraham Verghese

  Cancer, Ocean, Cutting

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• He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

  Abraham Verghese

  Teaching, Taught, Dies

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• There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

  Abraham Verghese

  Grief, Results, Capacity

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• I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn't change them. That hurt.

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  Dream, Hurt, Feelings

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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'.

  Abraham Verghese

  Zero, Two, Numbers

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• Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

  Abraham Verghese

  Baptism, President, Use

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