![]() In In the Country of Hearts, the art of medicine is alive and well. He is himself a warmhearted man who fills his book with fascinating true stories.-Annie Dillard "New York Times Book Review" has used his senses well.-Ferrol Sams, author of Run with the Horsemen "New York Times Book Review"Īs a cardiologist, John Stone knows the intricate mechanics of the heart as a literary man, he suggests the mystery beyond the devices. Stone remains firmly attached to the humanness of its endeavors. He is a cardiologist and professor at Emory University School of Medicine. John Johnstone, Dorothy Perkins, Joel Kupersmith> American Heart Journal. This book should be required reading for every person who aspires to be a physician-it makes me proud that I am a doctor.-Ferrol Sams, author of Run with the HorsemenĪs he explicates and celebrates the possibilities of modern medicine, Dr. John Stone is the author of three other volumes of poetryIn All This Rain, Renaming the Streets, and The Smell of Matchesand In the Country of Hearts: Journeys in the Art of Medicine. John Johnstone, MD is a cardiologist in Richmond, Kentucky. Hooray for knowledge and language and the joining of science and art.-Ellen Gilchrist What a joy when a medical doctor can tell us what he knows and make us understand and believe in the good in ourselves. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How fine our clinics would be, and how splendid our literature, were all doc-tors and writers alike to have the heart of this Stone.-Gerald Weissmann, editor-in-chief of MD magazine and author of The Woods Hole Cantata ![]()
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