![]() What draws each of them to the practice of medicine? How are they affected, emotionally and otherwise, by the work they do?ģ.Marion observes that in Ethiopia, patients assume that all illnesses are fatal and that death is expected, but in America, news of having a fatal illness "always seemed to come as a surprise, as if we took it for granted that we were immortal" (p. ![]() ![]() *Other Books by Same Author: “My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS”ġ.Abraham Verghese has said that his ambition in writing Cutting for Stone was to "tell a great story, an old-fashioned, truth-telling story." In what ways is Cutting for Stone an old-fashioned story-and what does it share with the great novels of the nineteenth century? What essential human truths does it convey?Ģ.What does Cutting for Stone reveal about the emotional lives of doctors? Contrast the attitudes of Hema, Ghosh, Marion, Shiva, and Thomas Stone toward their work. ![]()
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