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Abraham Verghese: El toque de un doctor

La medicina moderna está en peligro de perder una herramienta poderosa y antigua: el toque humano. El escritor y médico Abraham Verghese describe nuestro extraño y nuevo mundo en el que los pacientes se han convertido en simples datos y llama a regresar al examen médico tradicional cara a cara.

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La medicina moderna está en peligro de perder una herramienta poderosa y antigua: el toque humano. El escritor y médico Abraham Verghese describe nuestro extraño y nuevo mundo en el que los pacientes se han convertido en simples datos y llama a regresar al examen médico tradicional cara a cara.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

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Abraham Verghese

Physician and author

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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.

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