Quotes by : Abraham Verghese

I welcomed my slavish existence as a surgical resident, the never-ending work, the cries that kept me....

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

A man is only as rich as the number of children he fathers. After all, what else do we leave behind in....

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

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." -Cutting for....

What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning....

God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings.....

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

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism....