Quotes by : Abraham Verghese

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good....

Hema thought of Shiva, her personal deity, and how the only sensible response to the madness of life....

It was a tale well known to children all over Africa: Abu Kassem, a miserly Baghdad merchant, had held....

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit,....

My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not....

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

Surgery was the most difficult thing I could imagine.And so I became a surgeon.

When he recalls it in later years, he will wonder if he is distorting it, embellishing it, because each....

Doubt is a first cousin to faith, Ghosh. To have faith, you have to suspend your disbelief.

There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor....