ABOUT
THE BOOK

The Case of Doctor Sachs weaves together scene after scene of people’s lives in a small town as they wait to see their doctor, then share with him their reasonable complaints, beliefs and life-stories. The doctor is a man whose pity for his fellow creatures is his own untreatable condition, until a live story emerges between the good doctor and one of his patients. And Doctor Sachs himself is writing a book, one not unlike The Case of Doctor Sachs, a critique of the medical profession and a celebration of the power of literature to save lives that medicine cannot.