https://community.element14.com/technologies/medical/w/documents/9075/abraham-verghese-a-doctor-s-touchen-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/technologies/medical/w/documents/9075/abraham-verghese-a-doctor-s-touchFri, 08 Oct 2021 04:06:23 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:e8b3c800-3f5e-4277-9cab-aaa898a0451ahealthdeviceshttps://community.element14.com/technologies/medical/w/documents/9075/abraham-verghese-a-doctor-s-touch#commentsCurrent Revision posted to Documents by healthdevices on 10/8/2021 4:06:23 AM<br /> <p style="margin:0;">Modern medicine is in danger of losing a powerful, old-fashioned tool: human touch.</p><p style="margin:0;">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.</p><p style="margin:0;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin:0;"></p><span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxnlvwprf_c">www.youtube.com/watch</a></span><p style="margin:0;"></p><p style="margin:0;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin:0;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin:0;"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Abraham Verghese</strong><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" />In our era of the patient-as-data-point, Abraham Verghese believes in the old-fashioned physical exam, the bedside chat, the power of informed observation.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: touch, patients, physical, physician, abraham_verghese</div>