You live it forward, but understand it backward.

Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.

I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.

A beautiful literary collection that tells of today's country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations. At times, with today's advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America's cities, but the variety of practices is enormous. The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.