"The renowned clinician Dr. William Osler, considered the 'Father of Internal Medicine,' observed: 'The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.' Fazlur Rahman is not only a great physician; this remarkable man is also a wonderful writer. From his humble beginnings in what is now Bangladesh (and for this story I highly recommend his cultural memoir, The Temple Road ), and throughout his post-graduate training in internal medicine and oncology in New York and Houston, it took amazing fortitude and faith for Dr. Rahman to find his way to San Angelo, Texas. There he garnered the love and respect of its citizens through his delivery of high-quality primary and specialty care over many decades. How he accomplished this is the main thrust of this memoir. Every turn this writer takes--into medical science, the evolution of oncological treatments, the intricacies of doctor-patient-family relationships--serves to enlighten and enhance this story.

This physician's dedicated attentiveness to the daily, then yearly, then career-long practice of patient-centered 'connected' medicine is rare in America's fractured health system today, and we are all the poorer for it. With this book, Dr. Rahman joins the ranks of other great physician writers: Anton Chekhov, William Carlos Williams, Richard Selzer, Oliver Sacks, and Abraham Verghese, among others. You will not be able to put this book down. And when the last page is turned, you may wonder where you might find someone like this author to care for you. I know I did." --Jerald Winakur, MD, MACP, FRCP, author of Memory Lessons: A Doctor's Story and Human Voices Wake Us.