We see patients. We attend to the sick. Doctors like me do neither half as well as this Baker. It’s a book about following peregrines for seven months, but a witness to deep attention. “The hardest thing of all to see is what is really there.” I wish I could see this well as a doctor. Imagine a world where health records read like this– “He had the tenseness and taut ply in his wings that means he has sighted prey”–and gasp.
JA Baker, The Peregrine
