This book brilliantly mirrors back the negative culture of hospitals and doctors in the U.S. I had stopped noticing. I am a medical social worker in a hospital system and have observed much of this peculiar behavior exhibited by educated people whose oath it is to "do no harm." To read about a doctor who becomes a victim of the same abuse that is perpetrated by the medical profession, and to read about that doctor being crushed by it, is beyond pathos. The book also shows the damage that an acute and life-threatening illness can bring to a loving marriage. I loved this book. Quick read and leaves you breathless with affection for this lovely man, his family, and his struggle to survive.