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The author, an 84-year-old retired surgeon, has seen a lot of advances in medical care in his day, but looking back over the decades, he wonders if all the movement has been forward. Gone are the days of doctor house calls. Going is the personal touch in the doctor/patient relationship.
This book is a collection of stories that, rather than being literal reminiscences, are a “fiction based on fact” that distills the essence of his experiences with patients during his long practice in Bangor, Maine.
Palmer's stories provide a glance backwards at the art of medicine, when there was time for the doctor/patient relationship to grow and blossom, when listening and caring for another human being in need was the satisfying essence of doctoring.
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