I Am No Stranger

Medicine is one of the few remaining places where strangers are permitted into the most private hours of other people's lives. It is strange, intimate, frequently funny, sometimes unbearable, and largely invisible to everyone outside it.

This book is an attempt to describe that world honestly — its humor and its cruelty, its rituals, its silences, and the particular kind of intimacy that exists between people who will likely never see each other again.