Abraham Verghese is an Indian American Physician-writer. He was born in Ethiopia to parents from Kerala. He attended Madras Medical college and now a Professor at Stanford University Medical School. He is a recipient of the National Humanities Award from President Barack Obama in 2015. This article highlights his belief on the "importance of the human touch" during the clinical examination and his fears of losing the same in modern medicine.
Abraham Verghese was born in 1955 and received his MBBS degree from Madras University in 1979. After completing his internship, he went to the United States and started his residency in Tennessee. In 1985 he received a prestigious fellowship at Boston University School of Medicine. During his practice as a physician and a professor, he encountered a number of patients infected with HIV, and other infectious diseases whose experiences moved him. This…
