Colors is an artistic expression of Dr. Vasiloff 's love of life and the people who he has encountered and worked with during his long medical and teaching career. An optimistic man who looks for the good in others, he artfully expresses the emotional impacts of patients, students, and the thousands of others he has known in his personal life. Much of life is suffering, and he has seen much with his own eyes. But he has also seen courage, gratefulness, and the remarkable ability of people to persevere and overcome the "slings and arrows" common to the human experience. While some of these experiences can be expressed in objective prose, Dr. Vasiloff's deepest feelings and discovered meanings are better expressed obliquely in poetry, art, and song. That is what this book is all about: an effort of a caring physician and teacher to convey to others the incredible colors of human life he has been privy to witness in his life and career.
