Lives on Brown Cards: A Physician's Unexpected Journey

As Lives on Brown Cards opens, the reader meets a newly minted doctor who believes she’ s doing her very best by relying on the vital stats scrawled on each patient’ s “ brown card,” unaware that to become a truly great physician, she must look beyond the numbers and into the lives of people behind them.

In case after case, her mentors push her to dig deeper to find out about the humanity of her patients— and her own. Although struggling to meet these expectations under the weight of an over...