Top 25 Quotes by Abraham Verghese of 84 - Page 4

Geography is destiny.

Destiny, Geography

Abraham Verghese (2016). “My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and its People in the Age of AIDS”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

When I use the word 'healing', by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.

Abraham Verghese

Spiritual, Jobs, Mean

"A Novel That's the Best Medicine". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. February 11, 2009.

I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

Abraham Verghese

Shows, Love To Read, Willing

It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

Abraham Verghese

Memories, Stories, Alive

Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.272, Random House India

I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

Abraham Verghese

Destiny, Geography, Believer

"A Novel That's the Best Medicine". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. February 11, 2009.

I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.

Abraham Verghese

Motivation, Believe, Inspiration

"A doctor's touch". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2011.

No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it.

Abraham Verghese

Giving, Teeth, Matter