TED Talks

Abrham Verghese: A doctor's touch

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2011 • E102    Jul 14, 2011    15m
Ted Global 2011

Session 10: Feeling

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.

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