1. Abraham Verghese ( ) 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,...