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    Clinical Focus

    • Internal Medicine
    • Medical Education
    • Bedside Exam
    • The Patient-Physician relationship
    • Medical Errors
    • Story and Ritual of Medicine

    Administrative Appointments

    • Director, PRESENCE (2017 - Present)

    • Adjunct Faculty, Freeman Spogli Institute: Stanford Health Policy (2010 - Present)

    • Faculty, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics (2009 - Present)

    • Vice Chair for the Theory & Practice of Medicine, Stanford University, Department of Medicine (2007 - Present)

    Honors & Awards

    • Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation (2023-24)

    • Doctor of Humane Letters (Honorary), College of the Holy Cross (2022)

    • Doctor of Science (Honorary), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario (2017)

    • National Humanities Medal, President Obama and the National Endowment for the Arts (2016)

    • Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh (2014)

    • Honorary Doctorate, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (2014)

    • The Heinz Award i

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      The Covenant of Water

      OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK
      An Amazon Top 10 Book of the Month
      Named a Most Anticipated Book bygd the Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Oprah Daily, Publishers Weekly (Top 10), Literary Hub, and BookPage

      “In the spirit of his breakout novel, Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese offers an epic melodrama of medicin . . . The miraculous melds naturally with medicine in The Covenant of Water, whether in the form of artistic inspiration or religious awakening . . . Most remarkably, this depth of emotion comes across even in descriptions of surgery, which one would expect to be faceless and technical, if not merely sickening. But not so in the taut depiction of a skin graft for a burn victim or a trepanning procedure to relieve a man’s swollen brain of fluid.”—Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal

       

      “When you come to the end of Abraham Verghese’s new novel, The Covenant of Water, you

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      Abraham Verghese’s Epic New Family History

      In the 1980s, through the devastation of AIDS, Abraham Verghese was working as a doctor in rural Tennessee. Burned-out, he cashed everything in to take a sabbatical and attend the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He left in 1991 with an MFA and an agent.

      Verghese would go on to publish his first book in 1994, My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story, an account of those years in Tennessee. Today he lives in California, where he’s a professor and practicing physician at Stanford with a fourth book and second novel, The Covenant of Water, publishing with Grove Press in May.

      Covenant covers the same themes—history, medicine, culture, family—as Verghese’s bestselling 2009 debut novel, Cutting for Stone, which followed twin brothers born in Ethiopia. But Covenant is the story of India’s modernization from 1900 to the 1970s, told through the experiences of three generations