Contents

1 How Little We Know

2 All the Time in the World

3 The Consolation of Diagnosis

4 It’s Not Viral, Goddamnit!

5 Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Times Five

6 The Ponce de León Thing

7 Listen to the Patient

8 They Saved My Life But…

9 One Year Later

10 In Friends We Trust

11 So Why Did I Become a Doctor?

12 A Safe Place

13 It’s Not the Disease

14 The Patient’s Story

15 Natural Selection

16 The Prepared Heart

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS