title: The Importance Of Being.
abstract: Good patient care is found not on a computer screen but in being truly present with patients.
authors.affiliation: 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.
authors.forename: Abraham
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Verghese
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D064866:Mindfulness; D033262:Narration; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Other, Medicine/Clinical Issues; Personal Experience (-Narrative Matters-); Physicians