In a stirring collection of essays, author Nancy Bolger brings the reader on a path through the extraordinary life of Robert J. Joynt, MD, PhD, one of the most influential neurologists of the last half century. The path begins on the hot summer sidewalks of a small town in Iowa and winds through military experience, medical school studies, down the wedding aisle, and onto a long and successful career at the University of Rochester, where Dr. Joynt became the first chair of the newly created Department of Neurology in 1966. We travel to India, Canada, London and Cambridge in England, a...