This book follows a previously published selection of poems, and pictures by the children of Terezn, and Osvtm, the camp of lies of the Theresienstadt Ghetto, and the camp of death of Auschwitz.
Beyond the Colonnade is a selection of notes on situations, and individuals encountered over decades of community-based primary care practice, starting in the East End of London, and terminating in Chicago.
From medical school on, the lifetime of learning required by the ethical practice of medicine presents an introduction to humanism unsurpassed by any other discipline; and, by its implicit connections to other areas of scholarship, scientific, social, and literary, a first-rate general education. Such learning is reinforced daily by the diversity of human contact.
The exercise of the craft affords the practitioner an entre to large communities, small homes, and to the privileged communication of individuals. It offers a unique vantage point from which to observe the broad spectrum of human motivation, emotion, and response, and to become acquainted with the impact of societal, and economic realities on the enjoyment of health and the experience of the disease.
