Abraham Verghese
- Birth: May 30, 1955
- Death:
- Nationality: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Education: Madras Medical College, MBBS degree from the University of Madras, East Tennessee State University, Boston University School of Medicine.
- Author URL: https://www.abrahamverghese.org/
- Books Written
- My Own Country: A Doctor's Story (non-fiction, 1994)
- The Tennis Partner (non-fiction, 1998)
- Cutting for Stone (novel, 2008)
- The Covenant of Water (novel, 2023)
- Abscond: A Short Story (short story, 2025)
- Biography
an American physician and author. He is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor of Medicine, Vice Chair for the Theory & Practice of Medicine, and Internal Medicine Clerkship Director at Stanford Medical School.] He is also the author of four best-selling books: two memoirs and two novels. He is the co-host with Eric Topol of the Medscape podcast Medicine and the Machine. From Wikipedia
His elder brother, George Verghese, is an engineering professor at MIT, and his younger brother, Phil Verghese, is a former software engineer at Google From Wikipedia
Reading Covenant of Water, I was wondering about his religious background and his current faith. His parents were part of the St Thomas community in India, which is what Verghese was raised in. But I could not tell where his current faith lies.
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