# A doctor's touch

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2011
- Speaker: Abraham Verghese
- Year: 2011
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Society and politics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/abraham_verghese_a_doctor_s_touch)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Modern medicine is in danger of losing a powerful, old-fashioned tool: human touch. Physician and writer Abraham Verghese describes our strange new world where patients are merely data points, and calls for a return to the traditional one-on-one physical exam.

## Lectures

1. [A doctor's touch](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/abraham_verghese_a_doctor_s_touch/708c046316df), 19 min (TED's player)