From TED.com Modern medicine is in danger of losing a powerful, old-fashioned tool: human touch. Physician and writer Abraham Verghese describes our strange new world where patients are merely data points, and calls for a return to the traditional one-on-one physical exam. In our era of the patient-as-data-point, Abraham Verghese believes in the old-fashioned physical exam, […]
Archives for August 11, 2014
A Doctor’s Touch
– Abraham Verghese
August 11, 2014 By ABC of Success
Filed Under: Books, Cancer, Change, Decisions, Doctors and Medicine, Education, Emotion, Health, Human Nature, Illness, Leadership, Learning, Life, Science, Social, Technology, TED talks, Wellness, Women
