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

If 34 patients, who became the main characters of Tom Templeton's book, were traveling with you on the same bus 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 big 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, which he arranged chronologically from the youngest patient to the oldest. Tom Templeton will introduce you to little Johnny, who cannot feel full due to genetic features, a girl named Rachel, who denies her own pregnancy for all nine months, Luis, who suffered due to unrequited love, Mrs. Abbott, who lived to be 103 years old, and other patients. You will once again realize that not all stories in a doctor's practice are about happy healing, and that a doctor, despite his experience, may not have an answer to why something truly terrible and unfair happened. In his book, Dr. Templeton himself tries to figure out how to face the fragility and unpredictability of life without losing the joy of it, and, on the contrary, learn to appreciate it even more.