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What's New
 "How I Write: A Conversation with Abraham Verghese" is the topic of a dialogue with Abraham Verghese and Hilton Obenzinger this week at Stanford. Time and location are Wednesday, May 4, at 7:30 p.m. at the Geology Corner (Building 320), Room 105. This event is free and open to the public.
March-April, 2011 -- National Public Radio
NPR has selected Cutting for Stone for the second installment of its Book Club experiment. Abraham Verghese will call in and participate with three local "meetups" chosen randomly. You can register for a meetup, ask a question on Twitter or read an excerpt of the book all through the NPR site.
Cutting for Stone, with more than one million copies sold and well into its second year as a New York Times bestseller, is #6 on the September 11 New York Times Paperback Fiction list. It's also #3 on the Indie list for the week ending September 8, 2011.
In the New York Times, reporter Denise Grady writes of spending time with Abraham Verghese on the wards at Stanford University Hospital finding out why he puts so much faith in the physical exam. and why he thinks it's important for his students to learn physical diagnosis skills.
Click here to read the New York Times story.
In an interview with NPR's Richard Knox, Abraham Verghese and other physicians discuss the importance of the physical exam in healing and the importance to patients of touch.
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