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Filled with humanity, humility and candor, The Soul of a Patient offers an unparalleled view into the challenging, occasionally awkward and sometimes heartbreaking first doctor-patient relationship. Beautifully written by first-year Harvard medical students who are following their patient for an entire year, the book is an inspiring must-read for aspiring doctors and for the rest of us who will one day be their patients. Pauline W. Chen, MD Surgeon, Columnist: The New York Times Author of Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality These thorough, thoughtful, often lyrical casebooks demonstrate the power and beauty of the clinical relationship; as the medical students reflect on what each has learned from intense contact with one patient over the course of a year, they show us how patients are always doctors' most important teachers, and how very complex healing and helping can be, pulling together science and stories, knowledge and narrative. Perri Klass, MD Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics New York University The Soul of a Patient offers insight into the genesis of the doctor-patient relationship. The beauty of these students is that they are unafraid to be human. And since they will very likely be our doctors someday, this is heartening indeed. Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD Author of What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear, Editor of the Bellevue Literary Review

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