Cutting for Stone
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May 25, 2026 · 33 min · Season 12 · Episode 7
About this episode
The episode discusses the significance of the book 'Cutting for Stone' and its impact on the medical humanities.
Send us Fan Mail When I first really started thinking about medical humanities, torytelling and "accidental CPD", about 14 years ago, I set up the Chesterfield Medical Humanities Book Club, which is still running. The very first book that we talked about was Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, which I had read before when it first came out and which I went back to and loved all over again. So when I started bedside reading, I really thought that someone very early on would say, we must ta...
Topics covered
- medical humanities
- storytelling
- Cutting for Stone
- book club
- literature
Keywords
- Cutting for Stone
- Abraham Verghese
- medical humanities
- storytelling
- book club
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