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The question most audiences lob at Cutting for Stone: A Novel author and infectious diseases specialist Dr. Abraham Verghese is how he finds the time to write. Easy, he said: "I think I'm the only physician in Northern California who doesn't play golf. That opens up oodles of time." Verghese, who frankly charmed the pants off the crowd, confided that you should never show a first draft to your wife or your mother. "The moment your spouse becomes deeply disturbed by your voice," he said, "you have found your voice."