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How can we use record and safety a tellurian dignity?

Part 4 of a TED Radio Hour part Do We Need Humans?

About Abraham Verghese’s TEDTalk

Modern medicine is in risk of losing a powerful, out-of-date tool: tellurian touch. Physician and author Abraham Verghese describes a bizarre new universe where patients are information points, and calls for a lapse to a normal earthy exam.

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“Only a palm can tell where it’s tender, where a studious winces.” â?? Abraham Verghese


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Only a palm can tell where it's tender, where a studious winces. â?? Abraham Verghese

“Only a palm can tell where it’s tender, where a studious winces.” â?? Abraham Verghese

James Duncan Davidson/TED

About Abraham Verghese

In a epoch of a patient-as-data-point, Abraham Verghese believes in a out-of-date earthy exam, a bedside chat, a energy of sensitive observation. Before he finished medical school, Abraham Verghese spent a year on a other finish of a medical pecking order, as a sanatorium orderly. Moving secret by a wards, he saw a patients with new eyes, as tellurian beings rather than collections of illnesses. The knowledge has sensitive his work as a alloy — and as a writer. “Imagining a Patient’s Experience” was a sign of a Center for Medical Humanities Ethics, that he founded during a University of Texas San Antonio, where he brought a entrenched empathy. He’s now a professor for a Theory and Practice of Medicine during Stanford, where his out-of-date weekly rounds have desirous a new initiative, a Stanford 25, training 25 elemental earthy examination skills and their evidence advantages to interns. He’s also a author of a series of books, including his many recent, Cutting For Stone.

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