“…We are in the presence of a talented storyteller, whose dialogues and observations are full of imagination, sensitivity, dramatic power, and a profound human dimension.”
“(…) To the non-medical reader, it may be surprising that a 25-year-old knows so much about life – especially that phase of life that aligns so poorly with 25 years. This is the price we pay for being doctors. We see human beings more closely, more deeply, and more starkly than any other profession on the face of the earth. We renounce tranquility, and if we are honest, accommodation. Like Adam, we eat the fruit of the tree of Good and Evil and discover our own nakedness. Like him, we lose the peacefulness of paradise, and – not by divine curse, but by duty of conscience – venture forth to conquer the land with the sweat of our brow.” – Prof. Rubens Maciel
