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Abraham Verghese

Nascido: May 30, 1955 – Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Abraham Verghese is an Indian American physician, novelist, and essayist whose writing explores medicine, empathy, and migration. He is best known for My Own Country, The Tennis Partner, Cutting for Stone, and The Covenant of Water, which sold more than two million copies worldwide. He teaches medicine at Stanford and received the National Humanities Medal.

Biografia e Jornada do Autor

Abraham Verghese’s life and work were shaped early by migration, medicine, and upheaval. Born in Addis Ababa in 1955, the second of three sons of Indian parents recruited to teach in Ethiopia, he began medical training there before civil unrest disrupted that path. He then spent time in the United States working as a hospital orderly, an experience that placed him on the most humble rung of hospital life before he completed his medical degree at Madras Medical College, went on to residency in Johnson City, Tennessee, and later trained in infectious diseases at Boston University. The decisive turning point came when he returned to Tennessee and found himself caring for patients in the early rural AIDS epidemic, an experience that altered both his understanding of medicine and the direction of his writing life. ((https://www.abrahamverghese.org/biography/?utm_source=openai))

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it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important
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Honor the wisdom, the universe of knowledge that lies untouched within you
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I hope you will find ways for us to spend more time with the patient, and with each other, in true dialogue and fellowship
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We are dealing with humans, not data points
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Patients want us to be more present
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We could heal when we could not cure
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I believe I found it in my patients
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Those people put hands on a patient
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People take care of other people
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"That Abraham Verghese is a doctor and a writer is already established; the miracle is how organically the two are entwined"

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"Abraham Verghese makes good on the novelist’s covenant with the reader—trust me with your attention and I will reward you with a tale worth inhabiting"

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