MAKING THE ROUNDS: Memoirs of a Small-Town Doctor

MAKING THE ROUNDS shares the stories and insights of a compassionate doctor who practiced family medicine in the small working-class town of Markle, Indiana. This memoir develops the idea that, as a standard of health, communal wholeness is as important as individual wholeness, that health involves the sense of belonging to others and a place. The authors emphasize the need for doctors to see one life story in relation to other life stories, and, to that end, relevant and interesting town h...