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An epic storyline told by a distinctive tone in American drugs, One Doctor represents life-changing experience in the job of a recognized physician. In riveting first-person prose, Dr. Brendan Reilly calls for us to leading lines of drugs today. Whipsawed by daily crises and frustrations, Reilly must deal with several overwhelming challenges concurrently: the extraordinary patients under his attention on the teeming wards of the renowned teaching clinic; the life-threatening ailments of both of his ninety-year-old parents; and the tragic storage of a frosty case from long ago that haunts him still. As Reilly's patients and their families survive close calls, struggle with heartrending decisions, and confront the boundaries of medicine's power to get rid of, One Doctor lays bare a fragmented, depersonalized, business-driven health-care system where real caring is difficult to find. Each day, Reilly sees patients who show up through the splits and suffer harm because they lack one doctor who is aware of them well and relentlessly advocates for their best interests. Filled with exciting characters in New York City and rural New England-people with dark secrets, secret ailments, impossible dreams, and many varieties of courage - One Doctor says their reviews with awareness and empathy, reminding us of professional prices once performed dear by all medical professionals. But drugs has evolved enormously during Reilly's job, for both better and worse, and One Doctor is a cautionary story about those changes. Additionally it is a hopeful, motivating profile of medicine's potential to boost people's lives, Reilly's quest to understand the "truth" about doctoring, and a moving testament to the difference one doctor can make.
