34 patients. From infancy to old age: what dangers await at each of these stages

If 34 patients, the main characters of Tom Templeton's book, were on the same bus with you or standing next to you in line at the supermarket, you would probably not even notice them. To you, they would remain ordinary people, strangers, a small part of such a large world. But for Dr. Templeton, their stories became special and inspired him to write this book. In it, you will find 34 stories – one for each of them, arranged in chronological order from the youngest patient to the oldest.

Tom Templeton will introduce you to little Johnny, who cannot feel full due to genetic peculiarities, a girl named Rachel, who denies her own pregnancy for all nine months, Louis, who suffered from unrequited love, Mrs. Abbott, who lived to be 103, and other patients. You will once again be convinced that not all stories in a doctor's practice are about happy healing, and that even an experienced doctor may not have answers to why something truly horrific and unfair happened.

In his book, Dr. Templeton attempts to understand how, when faced with the fragility and unpredictability of life, one can not lose the ability to rejoice in it, but rather learn to cherish it even more.