Dr Abraham Verghese, author of "Cutting for Stone" and "My Own Country" is talking to KUOW's Steve Scher about life and the practice of medicine.
This is probably one of the most moving and thoughtful discussion about the practice of medicine I have heard in a very long time. From the need to go beyond the iPatient and the need for hands-on, bedside medicine to the need for reform of the medical education, this talk is an absolute must. One of those moments where radio is not a background noise and makes you stop and listen.
Treat yourself. Listen to it.
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Thank you for this post. What resonated with me was Dr. Verghese's distinction between being cured and being healed, so elegantly elicited with his parallel to a home burglary and the emotional aftermath. It is precisely this distinction that, to me, is the difference between allopathic and "alternative" medicine, and personifies why, instinctually (to some--not all), holistic medicine holds such appeal.
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