Quotes by : Abraham Verghese

We stopped you from going, didn't we? Me and Shiva. Our birth?"Don't be silly. Can you imagine me giving....

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

My father, for whose skills as a surgeon I have the deepest respect, says, "The operation with the best....

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

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

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

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

God will judge us by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God....

Being the first born gives you great patience.

Geography is destiny.