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In our era of the patient-as-data-point, Abraham Verghese believes in the old-fashioned physical exam, the bedside chat, the power of informed observation.
 
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Before he finished medical school, Abraham Verghese spent a year on the other end of the medical pecking order, as a hospital orderly. Moving unseen through the wards, he saw the patients with new eyes, as human beings rather than collections of illnesses. The experience has informed his work as a doctor -- and as a writer. "Imagining the Patient’s Experience" was the motto of the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics, which he founded at the University of Texas San Antonio, where he brought a deep-seated empathy. He’s now a professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford, where his old-fashioned weekly rounds have inspired a new initiative, the Stanford 25, teaching 25 fundamental physical exam skills and their diagnostic benefits to interns.

He’s also a best-selling writer, with two memoirs and a recent novel, Cutting for Stone, a moving story of two Ethiopian brothers bound by medicine and betrayal.

He says: “I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.”
 
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Author Abraham Verghese explores his roots in Kerala
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by G Pramod Kumar May 22, 2012 Indian-American author Abraham Verghese, known for his intensely personal works'My Own Country' and “The Tennis Partner” is writing his fourth book, a novel set in Kerala, his home-state. Although his last book and first ...

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Rosamond Gifford speaker Abraham Verghese mixes medicine with writing
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By Teri Weaver / The Post-Standard View full sizeGary Walts / The Post-StandardWriter Abraham Verghese speaking at The Civic Center, Montogomery St., Syracuse, one of the Rosamond Gifford series lecturers. Abraham Verghese grew up a voracious reader, ...

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Going on Faith
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By Abraham Verghese | May 18, 2012 "State of grace," a backwater church in Alappuzha, Kerala, one of many houses of worship for Syrian Christians in the southern state. Martin Harvey/Corbis The morning I arrived in Trivandrum, the capital of the south ...
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