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There's a lesson that comes up a couple of times in Abraham Verghese's best-selling 2009 novel, "Cutting for Stone." The experienced doctor -- the teacher/father figure -- asks his student/son ...

Oprah Winfrey’s six-part Super Soul Covenant of Water podcast series with Dr. Abraham Verghese premieres June 21 on YouTube, Apple, Spotify and more with new episodes every Wednesday through ...

Abraham Verghese explains the elements of his life — South Indian roots, a medical career going back to the AIDS crisis — influenced 'The Covenant of Water.' ...

Abraham Verghese, center, watches as Dr Irene Sonu, left, and Vinca Chow, right, practice a physical technique for helping to diagnose various cerebellar disorders, in Palo Alto, California on ...

Oprah Winfrey’s six-part Super Soul Covenant of Water podcast series with Dr. Abraham Verghese premieres June 21 on YouTube and Spotify with new episodes every Wednesday through July 26.

This month, Abraham Verghese — an Indian American physician and writer born in Ethiopia whose 2009 novel, Cutting for Stone, was a bestseller and the toast of many book clubs — has published ...

ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE: Abraham Verghese is a physician and an author whose books always reflect some part of his life. His new novel is called "The Covenant Of Water." It's his first in more than a ...

Abraham Verghese, an infectious disease specialist, says doctors would benefit from understanding that to every patient, illness is a story. His most recent book is the novel “Cutting for Stone.” ...

Author Abraham Verghese: I have this belief that a writer provides the words, the reader provides their imagination, and in the middle space is this mental movie. But it belongs to you, to the reader.

Abraham Verghese is a physician whose nonfiction books The Tennis PartnerMy Own Country received rave reviews. Now appears his much-anticipated first novel, Cutting for Stone. Set primarily in an ...

Abraham Verghese is a Stanford University professor, bestselling author and a prominent doctor who advocates for strengthening the physician-patient connection and bedside skills.