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About Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP, is Professor and Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor, and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the School of Medicine at Stanford University. He is also a best-selling author and a physician with a reputation for his focus on healing in an era where technology often overwhelms the human side of medicine. He received the Heinz Award in 2014 and was awarded the National Humanities Medal, presented by President Barack Obama, in 2015.
White House citation, National Humanities Medal, 2015
For reminding us that the patient is the center of the medical enterprise. His range of proficiency embodies the diversity of the humanities; from his efforts to emphasize empathy in medicine, to his imaginative renderings of the human drama.
Abraham Verghese: On healing, writing and his memories of Kerala
Mint Lounge | November 2023
Abraham Verghese discusses his latest bestseller, ‘The Covenant of Water’, his love for Kerala, the role of medicine, and growing up in Ethiopia with his childhood friend, Ammu Joseph
“Good things—great novels—come to those who wait.” – Oprah Daily
Now available for the first time from Penguin Classics: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, with a new foreword by @abe_verghese, the bestselling author of The Covenant of Water and Cutting for Stone!
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A 13-year old tennis prodigy takes on a new role in his family when life takes an unexpected turn.
“Yes, he could plan, he must plan, but he had to take into account that fate—or God, or the universe—had its own plans; it was indifferent to his plan.”
WUNC North Carolina Public Radio's Anita Rao hosted #HeinzAward winner @abe_verghese on stage before a live audience who heard his reflections on "Writing, Medicine & The Body." Have a listen:
#StanfordMed25 founder @abe_verghese has long emphasized "the power of the human hand to touch, to comfort, to diagnose & to bring about treatment." Research also supports this! More in our blog post:
Podcast: Medicine and the Machine
Join Medscape editor-in-chief Eric Topol, MD, and master storyteller and clinician Abraham Verghese, MD, on Medicine and the Machine as they discuss the power and pitfalls of artificial intelligence, and how it will change modern medicine.
Latest episode:
Charting a Path Out of COVID Means Remembering Data and Humanity: Caitlin Rivers discusses the missteps and opportunities amid the COVID-19 pandemic. ‘We can always chart a better course and end up where we need to be,’ she said.
Physician, author Abraham Verghese receives National Humanities Medal
Abraham Verghese, MD, the critically acclaimed author, was honored at a White House ceremony for helping to deepen the nation’s understanding of the human experience.
