PROLOGUE
CHAPTER ONE
The First Dr. Lerner
CHAPTER TWO
Super Doctor
CHAPTER THREE
Illness Hits Home
CHAPTER FOUR
The Second Dr. Lerner
CHAPTER FIVE
Forging My Own Path
CHAPTER SIX
Treating the Whole Patient
CHAPTER SEVEN
Family Practitioner
CHAPTER EIGHT
Growing Disillusionment
CHAPTER NINE
Slowing Down
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE
Barron Lerner is the author of four previous books on medicine and a frequent contributor to the New York Times'Well column, TheAtlantic.com, Huffington Post, and several blogs. He lives in Westchester County, New York, and is a bioethicist, historian of medicine, and internist at New York University's Langone School of Medicine.
“Exquisitely insightful... The Good Doctor poses a fundamental
riddle faced by every historian: How can we question the decisions
and attitudes of our forebears without having experienced the
contexts that shaped them? It makes for a particularly compelling
discussion when the players are father and son, sharing as their
lives’ work an ethically charged, ever-changing profession.”
—New York Times
“Barron Lerner’s marvelous book—a deeply intimate story about his
father and the practice of medicine—touches on some of the most
profound issues in medicine today: autonomy, medical wisdom,
empathy, paternalism and the evolving roles of the doctor and
patient. This is one of the most thoughtful and provocative
books that I have read in a long time, and I suspect that
generations of doctors and patients will find it just as thought
provoking.”
—Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies
“The Good Doctor is a lovely book and a loving book; it's a book
about medicine and family and ethics and history which embraces
complexity and speaks to all those subjects with wide-ranging
compassion and great good sense. And it's a father-son doctor saga
with much to say about the healing power of story and
understanding.”
—Perri Klass, MD, author of A Not Entirely Benign Procedure and The
Mercy Rule
“An absolutely compelling treatise on bioethics told thru the lens
of a physician's relationship with his physician father. If you
want to understand the modern state of ethics in medicine, read
this book.”
—Mehmet Oz, MD, Professor and Vice Chair, Surgery NY
Presbyterian/Columbia
“A heartwarming story about a father-son doctor duo spanning a
century, exquisitely showing the evolution of medical practice from
antibiotics through bioethics. A small gem of a book.”
—Samuel Shem, MD, author of The House of God and The Spirit of the
Place
“The younger Lerner is occasionally shocked by his father’s belief
that his intimate knowledge of his patients and their diseases gave
him insight and authority on what was best for them, including the
proper time to stop treatment and allow a patient to die. Yet
Lerner does more than criticize; he thoughtfully examines the case
for both ways of practicing medicine, and in many ways the book is
a tribute as much as a critique. Perhaps, Lerner argues, there is
an appropriate middle ground behind the father’s art of care and
the son’s.”
—Health Affairs
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