Health Aff (Millwood). 2016 Oct 1;35(10):1924-1927.

The Importance Of Being.

1: Abraham Verghese (abrahamv@stanford.edu) is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University. He is the author of My Own Country (Vintage Books, 1994), The Tennis Partner (Harper-Collins, 1998), and Cutting for Stone (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009), as well as short stories and essays. He is indebted to the writing and lectures of Alexander Nemerov, professor of art history at Stanford, for his take on Jackson Pollock and the anecdote of the water pump.

Good patient care is found not on a computer screen but in being truly present with patients.

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