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Sunday, February 21, 3:00 p.m.

Cutting for Stone  BUY NOW

India Community Center, 525 Las Cochas St., Milpitas

iPods, iPhones But No iPatients Please! - The Art of Medicine in a Technological Age

Award-winning author, practicing physician and tenured Stanford professor Dr. Abraham Verghese will talk about his novel Cutting for Stone, an epic love story, medical story and family saga.

His first book, My Own Country, movingly chronicled his experience of treating AIDS patients in rural America in the early 1980s. The book was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1994, and was later made into a film by acclaimed director Mira Nair.  His second book, The Tennis Partner, was a New York Times Notable Book and a national bestseller. 

Dr. Verghese began his medical career at the onset of the AIDS epidemic. He views medicine as a passionate and romantic pursuit, seeing the bedside ritual of examining the patient as a critical, cost-saving, time-honored, and necessary - but greatly threatened - skill that cements the patient-physician relationship. Earlier last summer, Verghese wrote a much-heralded op-ed on the practice of medicine. He will speak and answer questions.

Register by email to Vishnu@indiacc.org

Admission Free; Suggested donation $10 to defray expenses.