Tom Templeton

Wonderful - insightful and compassionate

Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes

Informative and personal, humbling and healing

The profound and uplifting memoir about the patients who changed one doctor’s life

We ask so much of our doctors. 
 To heal. To trust. To care. To listen. 
 To tell a man he'll die tomorrow. To help a man who doesn't want to live. 
 To look into a parent's panicked eyes as their daughter fights for breath. 
 To watch a 103-year-old woman slip away. 
 
 Doctors know our deepest secrets, our private worries and our most vulnerable moments. In this breathtaking memoir of patients he has helped, lost, and those who have changed him forever, Dr Tom Templeton weaves a profound and moving portrait of humanity, asking us to treat all with compassion.

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Wonderful - insightful and compassionate

An admirably told story

Informative and personal, humbling and healing

Wonderful - insightful and compassionate

An admirably told story

Informative and personal, humbling and healing

Wonderful - insightful and compassionate

An admirably told story

Informative and personal, humbling and healing

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