![]() It tells the story of twin brothers who are born in Missing, an Ethiopian hospital, into shocking and tragic circumstances. ![]() “Cutting for Stone” is fiction but borrows liberally from Verghese’s life experiences. ![]() Verghese’s third and most recent novel, “Cutting for Stone” (a best-seller on The New York Times list for more than two years) is a testament to his truly unique ability to combine his knowledge of medicine and surgery with his gift for story telling. Verghese juggles the titles of doctor, professor and best selling author so effortlessly and fluidly you would think he somehow found a way to avoid the necessity of sleep, teaching medical students by day and then cranking out elegant prose by night. Not so with Abraham Verghese, a professor and vice chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the School of Medicine at Stanford University. Interdisciplinary is a term that gets tossed around a lot these days, a sought after label whose true meaning sometimes gets lost in the academic rhetoric. ![]()
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