Abraham Verghese
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first heard Sep 2026
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I think I had to labor at it.
I think it wasn't something that just came naturally.
But I think in the reception and over time, I've begun to feel that maybe, yes, I had an affinity for this and I just didn't know it until later in
You know, I think when I finally arrive at the finished sentence, it's after many, many iterations.
But there are definitely moments when I think, this couldn't be from me.
This came from some part of me that I don't know, or call it the muse, call it the right brain.
It really seems that it didn't come from me, per se.
Barbara, you're nodding.
know it's a moment of disbelief do i really belong i think it's again that sense of shame is prevalent and you think am i am i a pretender am i did i just how
you be a pretender but i think um you know there's a there's a lot of us walking around in the world with a sort of elemental wound that says you don't quite belong you don't have what it takes and
Speaking for myself, I went into medicine because, like many people that go into medicine, to heal your woundedness by caring for others.
So you have this sense that you're never quite there.
And so I think the moment when you call me, the moment when this book hit the bestseller list, it's a bit overwhelming and you have to actually rise up and realize that you need to own this.
You are now
You can't sort of make excuses for yourself, the all shock stuff.
This is you, you did it, and you should celebrate and take that moment, which is something I didn't do often enough, I think.
It was too self-effacing for reasons I don't even understand.
Well, one of the nicest compliments I ever got was for my first non-fiction book set, you know, in the territory Barbara writes about so nicely.
Someone said to me, you know, I lived in this town all my life and I never saw the things that you saw.
I mean, I was just blind to them and you...
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