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January 4, 2023

“If there is hope for us, this is it: that we honestly face our past and move into a future guided by the natural laws of affection.”

~ the publisher

Saving Grace: What Patients Teach Their Doctors about Life, Death, and the Balance in Between

By David D. Alfery, MD
Resource Publications
166 pages
$21

“A touchingly human book, Saving Grace invites us to follow Dr. David Alfery as he grows from naive medical student to caring senior physician and anesthesiologist. . . As he becomes increasingly aware that all lives do end, he becomes increasingly committed to making each day matter.”

~ Theresa Brown, RN, author of Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice