Eyewitness to Medical History

Thanks to everyone for your thought provoking, inspiring, and engaging remarks about The Organ Thieves. As readers contact me from across the U.S. and abroad, I will be sharing them (including the first round below). Many of you have said the book has helped broaden your knowledge of history during this year of national reckoning.

Feel free to send me more thoughts about how the book may have affected you and do let me know if you’re OK with me sharing them. Meanwhile, I’ll keep you posted on any new book-related developments, including ways to honor the memory of Bruce Tucker and his descendants.

In this first round of reflections, we start with two retired doctors who studied at MCV in the 1960s-1970s. Both vividly recall their time with the two star surgeons profiled in the book, Dr. David Hume and Dr. Richard Lower.

“I was an ob-gyn resident at MCV in 1971,” wrote Dr. Bruce Bernie of Charleston, South Carolina, “and started med school at MCV in 1968. Your book was phenomenal and brought back rather bittersweet memories of my training.” To read more, go to my website and see Social Media/Newsletter.
 
And be sure to check out a great new review in Boomer magazine, which said, “Like an epic novel…The Organ Thieves carries the reader across many centuries… as engaging as a fictitious thriller.”

Best Regards,