![]() ![]() ![]() But the novel’s portrayal of medicine is far more than skin deep. ![]() The story is filled with medical characters, from the twins’ adoptive father Ghosh, a talented diagnostician, to Deepak a surgical resident struggling against the system to finish his training, and crowded with descriptions of medical diseases and surgical procedures. Marion who narrates the novel recounts the twins’ birth, their upbringing in and around the Mission Hospital in Addis Ababa, the romance that tears them apart, their medical training, and his own eventual flight to the USA as a result of the political instability in Ethiopia. The novel, which is set both in Ethiopia and the USA, tells the story of twin brothers, Marion and Shiva Stone. ![]() I was therefore delighted to read Abraham Verghese’s 2009 novel Cutting for Stone and find it dealing with issues of medicine, healing, and person-centred care in an interesting, engaging, and accessible way. Too often debates about ‘best practice’ in healthcare are held in remote forums, inaccessible to the people whose lives they impact because of physical distance, expensive paywalls and subscription policies, or unintelligible jargon. ![]()
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