Annual Spring Benefit

4th Annual Spring Benefit
Breakfast with Abraham Verghese, M.D., the author of Cutting for Stone

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

What an inspiring morning!  Thank you to everyone who was a part of Breast Cancer Connections 4th Annual Spring Benefit.  We were touched by Silvia’s story, an uninsured young woman who spoke about the early detection services she received from BCC.  Thank you to our speaker, Dr. Abraham Verghese for sharing his heartfelt personal stories.

Donations from tickets sales, sponsors, and the day of challenge bring our grand total to $200,000! Because of our generous community BCC will continue to provide free services for people facing breast cancer. Whether a client has just been diagnosed, or they are seeking ideas for ongoing wellness after treatment, our compassionate staff and volunteers will be with them every step of the way.

About the Speaker

Abraham Verghese, M.D. is Senior Associate Chair and Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University. He is a strong advocate for the value of bedside skills and physical diagnosis  skills he sees as waning in an era of increasingly sophisticated medical technology.

His first novel, Cutting for Stone, was published by Knopf in 2009 and received the Indies Choice book award for Adult Fiction from the American Booksellers Association. His first book, My Own Country, a memoir about AIDS in rural Tennessee, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and was made into a movie. His second book, The Tennis Partner, was a New York Times notable book and a national bestseller. He has published extensively in the medical literature, and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and elsewhere.