Doctor Confidential tells the autobiographical story of Dr. Rick Sheff’s training as a family physician in medical school and residency. Told in the genre of a hero’s journey beginning with his first, tentative cut into a cadaver, the reader is drawn in by the author’s compelling story telling, quickly coming to care deeply both about Dr. Sheff and each patient he encounters.

Yet this book is so much more than a memoir of medical training. Written more than 25 years after the events it describes with the wisdom and insight of a nationally recognized leader of American medicine, each story is carefully crafted to teach profound lessons about the journey of doctor and patient together as they discover that the deepest healing, the healing we all seek, is ultimately an act of love. Dr. Sheff’s poignant insights go beyond medicine to teach us lessons in living well. In the end, readers feel that they themselves have been healed, have had their hearts touched, through the gift of this extraordinary literary work.