While Dr. Porter's professional life as a paediatrician had been devoted to issues of child health and the improvement of health services delivered to children and families, he also wished to help improve medical education in general, focusing particularly on the importance of the doctor-patient relationship. Serendipity delivered him a series of life threatening health problems causing him to reflect on the patient role from the perspective of a doctor turned patient, the main message of this book. In his description of both serious and less serious issues concerning his health, Dr. Porter...