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Summer 2010
Stanford Medicine
The Stanford 25, Exam Techniques Every Doctor Should Know: On a Thursday morning, about 40 internal medicine trainees gather in a Stanford Hospital room to learn what a hand can reveal about a person's health.
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Summer 2010
Stanford Medicine
In The Healing Hand, Abraham Verghese discusses putting the physical back in the physical exam with writer Ruthann Richter.
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July 19, 2010
Scope from Stanford
Abraham Verghese talks with Paul Costello from Stanford about the vanishing art of the hands-on bedside exam in his work teaching medical students about the importance of observation and using the senses to gather the essentails about a patient's condition.
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July 16, 2010
Religion & Ethics News Weekly
Abraham Verghese talks with PBS' Fred De Sam Lazaro
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July 10, 2010
Wall Street Journal
Five Best -- Abraham Verghese prescribes these books on doctors' lives.
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July 5, 2010
Bookotron.com
Abraham Verghese doesn't waste any time. In the first sentence of 'Cutting for Stone,' he lets us know we're in for an epic story that starts with the birth fo twins -- by a nun.
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June 14, 2010
The Sacramento Bee
Readers and Staff ask Abraham Verghese questions prior to his appearance at Borders in Sacramento on Thursday, June 17.
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April 8, 2010 
The American Booksellers Association today announced the winners of the 2010 Indies Choice Book Awards, reflecting the spirit of independent bookstores nationwide. Cutting for Stone won the award for Adult Fiction.The award will be presented at BookExpo America 2010 in New York later this month.
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April 8, 2010
NCIBA.COM.
Abraham Verghese's Cutting for Stone is the Fiction winner in the NCIBA awards for 2010 for books published bya a California author.
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April 4, 2010
San Jose Mercury News
The author of the very literary, sweeping "Cutting for STone" sits in his office at Stanford Medical Center, surrounded by medical books. That should come as no surprise to anyone who's read this first novel, which is chock full of doctors and surgeries.
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March 29, 2010
The Huffington Post
Not all book signings are entirely about your book. Sharing life, laughs and lvoes can connect you with a reader far beyond the pages that once held their attention.
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March 14, 2010
San Francisco Chronicle
Abraham Verghese's moving and richly detailed epic novel "Cutting for Stone," published last year, tells of the lives of Ethiopian twins whose fates remain forever intertwined - despite the diverging journeys the two men, both surgeons, take.
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March 2, 2010
American Booksellers Association 
The American Booksellers Association this week unveiled the finalists for the 2010 Indies Choice Book Awards.
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February 7, 2010 
Mercury News
Verghese's Cutting for Stone is the pick for the March Meeting.
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February 5, 2010 
NPR
Paperback Fiction Bestsellers
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February 1, 2010
Mail Tribune
Doctor prescribes the human touch.
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January 25, 2010 
The Salt Lake Tribune
The Body of Narrative: Verghese Reveals Medicinal Qualities of Literature.
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January 24, 2010
The New York Times
Sunday Book Review.  Paperback Row.
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January 22, 2010
The Wall Street Journal
The Best Novels of 2009. 
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January 16, 2010
The Guardian
The Queen of TV Bookclubs Amanda Ross. 
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January 8, 2010
San Francisco Chronicle. Fresh Ink. 
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January 3, 2010
Telegraph.co.uk
TV Book Club Set to Launce New Literary Stars
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January 5, 2010
Manoramaonline.com
Dr Abraham Verghese headed for UK literary stardom 
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January 3, 2010
The Observer
Publishing guru prepares to turn Indian doctor into a literary star
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