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 VergheseA rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.
Abraham VergheseIt was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
Abraham Verghese