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Abraham Verghese: Um toque de médico

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A medicina moderna está ameaçada a perder uma ferramenta fora de moda, mas poderosa: o toque humano. O médico e escritor Abraham Verghese descreve nosso estranho novo mundo, onde pacientes são meramente pontos de informação e clama pelo retorno do tradicional exame frente a frente.

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. Full bio »

Translated into Portuguese, Brazilian by Isabel Villan
Reviewed by Rafael Eufrasio
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