'The stories are refreshing because the doctor heals and doesn't have to deal with insurance companies, HMOs, electronic medical record glitches, or other aspects of a bureaucratic medical system. The doctors' clinical acumen and the doctor-patient relationship are central. This is where healing began and may have readers yearning for those days of yesteryear when technology and the insurance industry were not in the forefront of medical care.' - Amy Ellwood, Family Medicine Journal 'Many of the characters are unforgettable: elderly Mrs Dymphna O'Reilly, who has a special reason for requiring visits at a specified time; old Eddie Mayfield, the Aboriginal artist; Mrs Eastley, the wan, just-coping wife of a bipolar vicar; Shep Skurley, Elvis fan and collector of Japanese swords; Hughie Weed, who sees angels on the picture rails; Whoople the Cadger with his two wives. But what comes across, along with the entertainment, the tension and sometimes the sadness, is the doctors' determination to do their best by their patients and their families, often against the odds. Butler's point is that it should be what we can still expect and that doctors should be better supported in providing this kind of care. The patients are all of us; the doctors are doing their best. The stories reveal another side of human experience with compassion and wit, showing all kinds of people facing difficult, odd or funny situations with the best resource they have: their humanity.' Saskia Seurat, Amazon UK
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