{description}Western medicine has progressed significantly since its humble beginnings, when doctors carrying their tool bags would travel to patients’ houses by horse and buggy or even on foot. Early physicians were often unable to cure diseases that seem trivial to us today. Though we pride ourselves on the vast improvements in medicine that have occurred during its modernization, we often forget that medicine aims not only to cure, but also to heal. Dr. Abraham Verghese, Professor and Senior Associate Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford Medical School, aims to remind us of precisely that idea. For Dr. Verghese, the doctor-patient relationship is holy, a hallowed connection to be celebrated. Over the course of time, however, he believes we have turned our focus more towards the celebration of new cures for diseases and new technological advances. As a result, we have ultimately neglected the most integral aspect of medicine, the one-on-one interaction between patient and physician.{/description}