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- Shanta on 2009-05-01 - Tags excerpts , health_services , abraham_verghese
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The word care, in a medical sense, implies the many things physicians do for patients, among them: ordering tests, writing prescriptions, performing surgery. Or perhaps used to do. Abraham Verghese, an infectious disease specialist and professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, thinks doctors have distanced themselves from the word’s basic definition: to show empathy and compassion. “The patient in the bed is merely an icon for the real patient, who exists in the computer,” Verghese has lamented.
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Surely you couldn’t be a good doctor and a terrible human being—surely the laws of man, if not of God, didn’t allow it.
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