July, 2011 -- The video of Abraham's talk, "A Doctor's Touch," at TED in Edinburgh, Scotland, on the TED site has garnered almost a million views. Watch the presentation about which TED said:
"Modern medicine is in danger of losing a powerful, old-fashioned tool: human touch. Physician and writer Abraham Verghese describes our strange new world where patients are merely data points, and calls for a return to the traditional one-on-one physical exam. In our era of the patient-as-data-point, Abraham Verghese believes in the old-fashioned physical exam, the bedside chat, the power of informed observation."