title: Relief for the Body, Renewal for the Soul: A Doctor's True Stories of Healing and Hope
author: G. Scott, M.D. Morris
description: Morris, a physician and a Methodist minister, founded the Church Health Clinic in a poor section of Memphis to care for the bodies and the souls of those who had no other place to go. He tells 14 stories of the clinic's patients, but not as an impersonal stream of medical cases. For he individuates all his subjects, black and white, old and young, Cambodian, Mexican, and Polish immigrants and U.S. natives. He ends each story with observations about what he learned as a doctor and as a minister from experiencing it. Incidentally, he shows that his subjects live in a society able to provide an astonishing variety of services, thanks to Morris' experience, sympathy, and broad network of resources for specialized medical treatment, social-work assistance, and financial and political support. When a new patient arrives, Morris' first step is to learn the patient's background and current life circumstances; and after diagnosis, medical treatment can be punctuated by Morris' presiding at weddings and funerals. <i>William Beatty</i><br /><i>Copyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
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  THE SARAH ROBERTS SERIES
  
  
  VOL. 7-9
  
  
  Three Novels in One
  
  
    
  
  
  by
  
  
    
  
  
  Jonas Saul
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Vigilante
  
  
    
  
  
  by
  
  
    
  
  
  Jonas Saul
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter 1
  
  
    
  
  
  Friday, February 29, 2008 …
  
  
    
  
  
  Death is the ultimate reset.
  
  
  The cycle had continued day after day, year after year. Birth, then death,
  resetting everything but never fixing anything. Healing the errors could only
  happen with a reset. Nothing could be gained, nothing allowed to move forward
  without the reset, which would make things right.
  
  
  The lessons in the healing were what made it all possible for him. It was why
  he did it. What he offered his mannequins was something no one ever offered
  them before. No one was willing to offer it after either.
  
  
  Silence. Absolute. A quieting of the soul. Then the reset.
  
  
  He gathered his tools, placed them in the black medical bag, then folded up
  the thick plastic sheet they had lain on and stuffed it inside a separate
  duffel bag. He took one last look around to make sure he had r