Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue 3
Chapter 1 Of Middle Linebackers and Medicine 13
Chapter 2 The Midnight Meal 25
Chapter 3 Transfusions 33
Chapter 4 Learning Curve 49
Chapter 5 Sleuthing at the VA 67
Chapter 6 The Theodora Consult 93
Chapter 7 Rolling the Dice 107
Chapter 8 The Man Who Played Pinochle with Dogs 123
Chapter 9 At the Furrow's End 135
Chapter 10 Pinochle Redux 145
Chapter 11 Mind Spark 157
Chapter 12 Chosen Ones 171
Chapter 13 Did Adolf Hitler's Parkinson's Disease Affect the Outcome of World War II? 185
Chapter 14 Angels on the Ceiling 209
Chapter 15 Sail Away 219
Afterword 235
Index 243