Have you ever wondered what is going on inside your doctor's head
when you're behind that closed examination room door? Practice
Makes Perfect: How One Doctor Found the Meaning of Lives helps us
to understand the potential depth, sanctity, and humor within the
doctor-patient relationship from both perspectives, as Dr. David
Roberts makes rounds and cares for patients. Dr. Roberts has just
completed his medical training and starts out in the private
practice of Internal Medicine in a Midwestern college town. He is
twenty-nine years old, but looks sixteen, inspiring most patients
to comment, "You look too young to be a doctor " On his first week
of hospital rounds, an angry middle-aged man dies in such a
dramatic, direct manner that our doctor, and the young nurse
working with him, believe he has killed this patient. From this
point onward, we listen and learn with Dr. Roberts and Dr. Mark
Edwards, his senior partner, as they together navigate their first
five years of private practice as primary care physicians. Written
in the currently popular narrative non-fiction style, throughout
Practice Makes Perfect the reader follows Dr. Roberts as he cares
for twenty different and unique patients. As he encounters each new
human being seeking help, we are invited inside the good
physician's head to see and better understand the complexity of
both successful and strained patient-doctor relationships. The
reader sees him quickly formulate his initial impressions, analyze
the data, argue with himself and sometimes others, including his
patients, and struggle with his own doubts and certainties in order
to help his patients to heal. Through a series of fascinating,
humorous, and poignant patient stories, this "professional coming
of age" book chronicles Dr. Robert's journey of finding the human
dignity in each patient and learning something about himself, to a
growing confidence in his abilities as a physician. Using a lively
and entertaining style, the author takes us inside his own mind to
help us understand what doctors think, say and do, (and what they
don't say or do), each time we walk into the examination room as
patients seeking help for our maladies. We see Doctor Roberts
honestly reflect upon his own failures, successes, doubts and
certainties, to learn the truth that his patients have to teach him
about life. In discovering each person's innate dignity, he finds
his own true calling as a physician and healer. Each chapter begins
with an epigraph, setting the stage for the patient story. In
addition to meeting and learning from each patient, the reader also
follows the growth and development of the fledgling practice from
the first two physicians, Drs. Edwards and Roberts, to the addition
of new partners, until they at last outgrow their small office and
move to a new professional office building adjacent to their
hospital. Recognized as one of America's Best Doctors for many
years, the author's broad experiences as a practicing physician, a
hospital and medical group executive, and national speaker allow
him to paint an exciting and heartrending portrait of our
healthcare system, and help the reader to find his or her place
within it. You simply cannot listen to the news these days without
hearing about what is wrong with healthcare. In stark contrast,
seeing patients with Dr. Roberts helps us understand both what is
right, and what could be better, about ourselves and our
relationships with physicians, as we seek and then discover with
him the dignity of each human spirit.
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