And so, I went to Texas Tech El Paso. I could literally throw a stone out of my window and hit someone in Juárez, Mexico. And yet, it was the most beautiful place to practice, because in that county hospital we saw everything in young people, untreated; it felt very meaningful, but my evenings were mine to write and to develop my voice, and my weekends were mine. And I eventually got hired to Stanford in a roundabout way, largely because of that.
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Abraham Verghese
Physician and writer; professor at Stanford University
United States / Ethiopia · b. 1955
Science and medicine
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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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