In his forty years of treating children, pediatrician Mark Vonnegut says he has seen the American medical system change in ways he couldn’t have imagined as a medical student; some of them good, others not so good. His new memoir The Heart of Caring, A Life in Pediatrics introduces us to some of his patients, and his thoughts on what’s working and what’s not, in American Health Care.
The Heart of Caring
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