title: Healing Words: A compilation of the best columns of John Sergent, M.D.
author: John Sergent
description: A powerful compilation of the best that resides in us as human beings. After you have read it, pass it on. --Wonder Drake, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University;I do not know a better doctor and you are not likely to find a better collection of real-life stories written by a doctor than those in this book by John Sergent. --Lamar Alexander, US Senator from Tennessee&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John Sergent s writing calls us to think deeply about how the important issues in health care connect to the lives and hearts of real people he encounters us where we live. --Bob Fisher, President of Belmont University<br /><br />John Sergent s writing calls us to think deeply about how the important issues in health care connect to the lives and hearts of real people he encounters us where we live. --Bob Fisher, President of Belmont University<br /><br />A powerful compilation of the best that resides in us as human beings. After you have read it, pass it on. --Wonder Drake, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University
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  What Remains
  
  
  These Gentle Wounds
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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