What does Cutting for Stone tell us about the roles of compassion, faith, and hope in medicine?

In the novel, we learn that compassion, faith, and hope are integral elements in healing..... elements that are just as important as the medical treatment itself. Medicine is an important theme on a symbolic level. Though the family is made up of doctors, there are fractures, betrayals, and injuries that harm the family unit....... fractures that cause a type of illness that no amount of medical attention can cure. Tsige admires and loves Marion because of the comfort and care he gave to her after the baby's death...... not because of the treatment he provided her son. Shiva's fistula research is successful not because of its medical advances, but rather, because of his sympathetic bedside manner with the untouchable women...... something they'd rarely, if ever, experienced. Lastly, in the most important moment of medicine versus love, we see Marion saved by forgiveness...... the surgery being massively important, but the forgiveness allowing for emotionally healing...... something that seems to have been a more important form medication than the surgery itself.