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Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese (born 1955) is a physician-author, Professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford University Medical School and Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine.〔(Stanford Report: Physician returns to the art of healing in medicine )〕 He is also the author of three best-selling books, two memoirs and a novel. In 2011, he was elected to be a member of the Institute of Medicine.〔()〕
He was born in Ethiopia to parents from Kerala, India, who worked as teachers. Verghese, his father's Christian name, being Malayalam for George, is a very common Suriyani name. In 2009, Knopf published his new book and first novel, ''Cutting for Stone''.〔(Publishers Weekly: Across Continents )〕 in 2010, Random House published the paperback version of the book and since that time, it has risen steadily up the bestseller charts, ranking #2 on the ''New York Times'' trade paperback fiction list on March 13, 2011.〔(New York Times Best Sellers )〕 It has been on the ''New York Times'' list for well over two years.
==Medical training and early career==
Verghese began his medical training in Ethiopia, but his education was interrupted during the civil unrest there when the Emperor was deposed and a military government took over.〔(Denise Grady, "Scientist at Work: Dr. Abraham Verghese," ''New York Times'', 11 October 2010 )〕 He came to America with his parents and two brothers (his elder brother George Verghese is an engineering professor at MIT). Verghese worked as an orderly for a year before going to India where he completed his medical studies at Madras Medical College in Madras, now Chennai.〔(Bob Thompson, "Diagnosis: Author — Physician Turned To Writing to Heal Himself, Others," ''Washington Post'', 16 February 2009 ) Retrieved 17 February 2009.〕 In his written work, he refers to his time working as an orderly in a hospital in America as deeply influential in confirming his desire to finish his medical training; the experience had given him a deep understanding of the patient's hospital situation with its varying levels of treatment and care. He has said the insights he gained from this work helped him become a more empathic physician and resulted in the motto, "Imagining the Patient's Experience", that defined his later work at the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics in San Antonio, Texas, which he directed for five years from 2002 to 2007.〔http://www.abrahamverghese.com/biography.asp Abrahamverghese.com.〕
After finishing his medical degree (MBBS) from Madras University in 1979, and then completing his internship there, he came to the United States as one of hundreds of foreign medical graduates (FMGs) from India seeking open residency positions. As he described it in a ''New Yorker'' article, "The Cowpath to America", many FMGs often had to work in the less popular hospitals and communities, and frequently in inner cities.〔(Abraham Verghese, Personal History, "The Cowpath to America" ), ''The New Yorker, June 23, 1997, p.70. Retrieved 15 March 2009.〕 He opted for a residency in a brand-new program in Johnson City, Tennessee, affiliated with East Tennessee State University. He was a resident there from 1980 to 1983, and then secured a coveted fellowship at Boston University School of Medicine in 1983, where he worked for two years at Boston City Hospital and where he saw the early signs of the urban epidemic of HIV in that city. Returning to Johnson City in 1985 as assistant professor of medicine (he later became a tenured associate professor there), he encountered the first signs of a second epidemic, that of rural AIDS. His work with the patients he cared for and his insights into his personal transformation from being "homoignorant", as he describes it, to having an understanding of his patients resulted a few years later in his first book, ''My Own Country''.
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