The Doctor-Patient Relationship with Abraham Verghese

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Every patient's body tells a powerful story about the patient's socio-medical condition, past and present. In this talk, Professor Abraham Verghese traces the evolution of technology in medical care and emphasizes the importance of developing a clinical eye during bedside diagnosis. He'll also touch on the ritual of the medical exam as a pivotal moment of transformation.

Abraham Verghese is a professor and senior associate chair for the theory and practice of medicine. In addition to being a sought-after clinician and diagnostician, Abraham attended the Iowa Writers Workshop, where he obtained a master of fine arts. An accomplished author, he chronicled AIDS in rural Tennessee in a memoir, My Own Country, a complex friendship in another memoir, The Tennis Partner, and the lives of twin orphans in his novel, Cutting for Stone. Abraham has published extensively in medical literature, and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, The Atlantic, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere. He is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary diseases and infectious diseases and is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

This Stanford+Connects micro lecture was filmed on location in Paris, France. Stanford+Connects is a program of the Stanford Alumni Association.

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