Abraham Verghese

Abraham Verghese is the director of the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, where he holds the Joaquin Cigarroa Jr. Chair and the Marvin Forland Distinguished Professorship. He is the author of My Own Country and The Tennis Partner. www.abrahamverghese.com

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Introduction
The stories in Silence Kills might appear to be about medicine. My sense when I was done reading them was that they were really about life, about the very human urge to extend life and relieve suffering, and about how easily in trying to make things better we can make things worse.
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Silence Kills

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Abraham Verghese

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