"Others have done this -- and done it well -- but Aronson's work stands out…"

"Louise Aronson's stories are sharp and brilliantly cut like a laser to the heart of the matter…I felt I was seeing some truths about physicians for the first time."

"Though her work brings to mind other physician-writers such as Abraham Verghese, Vincent Lam and Chris Adrian, Aronson's voice is all her own. Her creative take ... is highly original."

"Meeting people at pivotal moments in their lives - when they need help, when their circumstances have suddenly changed - offers... an insider's look at the lives of patients, caregivers and doctors alike."

"The stories in this book and stories like them should become the underpinning of any further national discussion about health care legislation."

"These stories are about medicine exactly in the way that medicine is about life"

"Aronson combines a doctor's eye with a writer's heart… I devoured these stories."

"Some of the most startling and memorable stories I’ve ever read."

"Aronson invites us to bear witness as people--with very little fanfare, but with a profound sense of truth--to come to terms with what it really means to be a flawed, sick human being in a flawed, sick world."

"Chekhov…[treated] the need for truth between human beings as an emergency … Aronson's quest, too, is for that truth."

"If you've ever wondered what goes on behind the closed doors of the sick and the wounded -not on television or in movies but really- then this is the book for you."