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A Record of today's Illness calls for listeners into overlooked lives in the neighborhoods, clinics, and nursing homes of San Francisco, supplying a deeply humane and incisive portrait of health and health issues in American today. An seniors Chinese immigrant sacrifices his demented wife's well-being to his son's power. A busy Latina physician's eldest daughter's dependence on more attention has devastating consequences. A veteran's injuries turn into a metaphor for the rest of his life. A gay doctor learns completely different lessons about family from his life and his work, and a psychiatrist who advocates for the underserved may herself be crazy. Alongside one another, these honest and compassionate experiences introduce a impressive new literary voice and provide a view of what it means to be a doctor and a patient unlike anything we've paid attention to before. Within the custom of Oliver Sacks and Abraham Verghese, Aronson's writing is dependant on personal experience and addresses topics of current cultural relevance. Masterfully told, A Record of today's Health problems explores the role of experiences in medicine and creates a global pulsating with life, speaking truths about what makes us individual.
