White Life

Synopsis

His relationship with George Dittus, an unforgettable patient, leads up to the visit. In trying to save Mr. Dittos, the doctor's eye is drawn to the unexpected, the contradictory, the ecstatic. He learns that if medicine is an assembly of facts, then doctoring is making sense of the unnamed, and his work is a marriage of the two. Caring for George Dittus finally makes it unbearable not to take the