Portland Arts & Lectures: Abraham Verghese
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, United States
Abraham Verghese is a physician, writer, tenured professor, and senior associate chair for the theory and practice of medicine at Stanford University. Verghese’s first book, My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story, was inspired by his early years practicing medicine as an orderly, taking care of terminal AIDs patients. The book...