Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese [284]
Medicine is a demanding mistress, yet she is faithful, generous, and true. She gives me the privilege of seeing patients and of teaching students at the bedside, and thereby she gives meaning to everything I do. Like Ghosh, every year, at commencement, I renew my vows with her: I swear by Apollo and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia to be true to her, for she is the source of all … I shall not cut for stone.
Abraham Verghese,
Stanford, California, June 2008
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A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ABRAHAM VERGHESE is Professor and Senior Associate Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has served on the faculty at East Tennessee State University, the University of Iowa, Texas Tech University, and the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, where he was the founding director of the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics and where he holds an adjunct professorship. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is the author of My Own Country, a 1994 NBCC Finalist and one of five books chosen as Best Book of the Year by Time, and The Tennis Partner, a New York Times Notable Book. His essays and short stories have ap peared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Story, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
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Verghese, A. (Abraham), [date]
Cutting for stone : a novel