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October 6, 2012
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Taking Care, with Patients and the Written Word
Kristin Tillotson talks to Abraham Verghese about his two jobs, practiciing medicine and writing books, concluding he brings the human touch to both.
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August 21, 2012
NPR: Author Abraham Verghese Fears for Ethiopia with Exit of Zenawi
The death of Ethiopian leader Meles Zenawi has left a dangerous power vacuum in the Horn of Africa nation, Abraham Verghese tells host Marco Werman. Listen to the interview as Dr. Verghese recalls his interview with Zenawi in 1998.
Link to the interview.
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March 13, 2011
The National -- United Arab Emirates:
Crowd Doubles at Literature Festival
The Emirati filmaker Ali Mostafa told yesterday of how he oercame opposition after authorities decided to prohibit his 2009 film City of Life because it depicts....
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March 11, 2011
Gulf News: Book Club Readers Come Face-to-face with Authors
Answers to nagging questions, mysteries behind the pages brough to light in session that allowed bookworms to prove writers' minds.
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March 6, 2011
The Daily Beast: Book Beast
A smart new book by Tina Rosenberg says social cures can solve the world's problems. In this weeks's Newsweek, Abraham Verghese calls the book, which touts the values of peer pressure, "brilliant" and "fully realized."
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February 27, 2011
The Atlantic: The Patient, Not the Data
How refreshing to read in The New York Times today an eloquent appeal from humanist, writer and physician Abraham Verghese, MD, his plea to ....
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February 17, 2011
The Oregonian: Reunion with long-lost friend in Beaverton
He was the young man who showed her how to crack an egg. She was the cousin of friends in Ethiopia, one of whom became his medical school classmate in India.
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February 16, 2011
The Oregonian: Local Library loans out Kindles
The Lake Oswego Public Library has begun loaning out Kindle e-readers to help accommodate older readers into the community's annual city-wide readign progra. the Kindle's ability to increase the size of text made it a good idea to...
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February, 2011
Martha Stewart Show
Abraham Verghese on Martha Stewart's Books I'm Reading.
Watch the video. Read The Martha Blog on Cutting for Stone.
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February 14, 2011
Green Apple Core Blog: Indie Booksellers meet President Obama
Lo that Green Applers were not among the lucky few to meet the President, but the glow has warmed our cheeks somehow
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February 6, 2011
San Francisco Chronicle: Cutting for Stone optioned
Cutting for Stone is on its way to being adapted as a movie.
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February 3, 2011
Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants: The art of physical assessment
I went to New York City this past December to meet a close friend for lunch and to walk along Fifth Avenue to get into the holiday spirit...
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February 1, 2011
Hollywood Reporter: Cutting for Stone optioned for screen by Anonymous Content
Anonymous Content has optioned the screen rights to the novel, Cutting for Stone, which has been on the New York Times' trade best seller list for a year, where it currently ranks No. 4.
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January 19, 2011
The Daily Breeze: Has technology made the annual physical exam a dying art?
There you are again, sitting on the examination table with the paper overlay crinkling beneath you as you wait to be poked and prodded by a doctor. It's an annual tradition, or at least it's supposed to be.
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January 18, 2011
McClean's Canada: Will the doctor see you now?
Lately, in test-happy and litigiious America, the decline of physical exams has been the subject of debae in the popular press. Abraham Verghese talks about The Stanford 25.
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January 2, 2011
Washington Post: Book World
The avalanche of end-of-year culture retrospectives scrambles our circuits, so we asked 25 notable Washingtonians to winnow down the best-of pickings for us. Here are...
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December 28, 2010
Washington Post: Book World
The flurry of shoppers in bookstores (and on-line) across the area in the week before Christmas produced a roundup of "most desired" books that...
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October 12, 2010
New York Times: Physician revives a dying art -- the physical exam
In the Science Times' section, Scientist at Work, Writer Denise Grady spends time with Abraham Verghese in his work on the wards at Stanford University Hospital finding out why he puts so much faith in the physical exam. Why in this era of CT, ultrasound and MRI, not to mention the array of expensive lab tests available for almost every ache or pain, does he thinks it's important for his students to learn physical diagnosis skills.
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September 20, 2010
NPR
In an interview with 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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September 20, 2010
Nashua Times/Associated Press
Doctors, nurses and other health care workers are tapping into their inner Tolstoys to better connect with patients.
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August 18, 2010
USA Today
Abraham Verghese mentions his next novel won't take so long!
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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 11, 2010
NewsOK
Doctors, nurses and other health care workers are tapping into their inner Tolstoys to better connect with patients.
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March 5, 2010
Palo Alto Online
What the doctor ordered: Epic debut novel is a story of love, medicine and intrigue. Somewhere at Stanford University's medical school Abraham Verghese, professor of medicine and senior associate chair, has a second, secret office.
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March 3, 2010
JFK Presidential Library
Abraham Verghese named Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award finalists for Cutting for Stone (Knopf).
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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 24, 2010
Nashville Arts Scene
Author-physician Abraham Verghese talks about his
dual career and his latest novel, Cutting for Stone
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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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