Medical training undoes you; it feels fitting that the binding in my copy of this memoir was so loose that every seventh page came clean out if I pulled upon it. And I found myself pulling because its pages were so finely-observed. Stein is the rare doctor who can see from the perspective of a patient. He earns his conclusions– “My first day of medical school I began my training in unkindness. … I’ve reconsidered that old medical school survey question ‘Would you rather be intelligent or kind?’ Kindness is a form of intelligence.” — and his forgivenesses.