{"text":"I was temperamentally better suited to a cognitive discipline, to an introspective field—internal medicine, or perhaps psychiatry. The sight of the operating theater made me sweat. The idea of holding a scalpel caused coils to form in my belly. (It still does.) Surgery was the most difficult thing I could imagine.And so I became a surgeon.","author":"Abraham Verghese","tags":["doctor","ethiopia","india","medicine","physician","science","surgeon"],"id":105560,"author_id":"Abraham+Verghese"}