Picture Quotes Another day in paradise' was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift. —Abraham VergheseWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot. —Abraham VergheseWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain. —Abraham VergheseWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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 VergheseWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I'm not sure how exactly we could manage. —Abraham VergheseWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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 VergheseWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure. —Abraham VergheseWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate. —Abraham VergheseWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand. —Abraham VergheseWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear? —Abraham VergheseWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me. —Abraham VergheseWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds. —Abraham VergheseWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation. —Abraham VergheseWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live. —Abraham VergheseWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam. —Abraham VergheseWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him... —Abraham VergheseWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Being the first born gives you great patience. —Abraham VergheseWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this