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Abraham Verghese

Physician and writer; professor at Stanford University

United States / Ethiopia · b. 1955

Science and medicine

About

Ethiopian-born physician and author of My Own Country, The Tennis Partner and Cutting for Stone. He is vice chair of medicine at Stanford and received the National Humanities Medal in 2016.

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Question Which relationships did you tend well, and which did you neglect while other things felt urgent? Relationships read 5 other answers →

they are much more ready to put their family and their children first in a way that I regret that I didn't do.

Recorded Mr. Feineh, On Being with Krista Tippett, Stanford University audience question, 1554336000 source ↗

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