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A doctor's touch - Abraham Verghese

2013-08-16

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Modern medicine is in danger of losing a powerful, old-fashioned tool: human touch. Physician and writer Abraham Verghese describes our strange new world where patients are merely data points, and calls for a return to the traditional one-on-one physical exam.

Talk by Abraham Verghese.