AbrAhAm Verghese, mD, mACPPrOFessOr FOr The TheOrY & PrACTICe OF meDICINe, sTANFOrD UNIVersITYMonday, October 8, 2012 at 7:30pm • Cobb Great HallAbraham Verghese, M.D., renowned physician, best-selling author and professor at Stanford University, has earned accolades in and out of the medical community for his advocacy on behalf of patients. He is widely regarded as having influenced the way modern medical students think about what it means to be a doctor and to treat people. Much of his life’s work is brought to bear in his debut novel, Cutting for Stone, which has been celebrated by critics and spent over 50 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. His work with terminal patients was intensely transformative and the basis for his first book, My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story.

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