These stories from medical life, which include glimpses of personal and family life and of friendships begun in clinics and long cherished, are both elegant and humble.  Volck seems to be one of those writers who need and want to write to give shape and clarity to encounters that stay in the mind and heart, and sometimes in the gut, long after they are “over.”  They are intimate without presumption and illuminating without pretension, and often dramatic without sensationalism.  He gives due regard to the ways others have taught him who don’t come from his own medical or spiritual tradition, while recognizing what he draws from his own training in both areas.  A beautiful, memorable book, "Attending Others" is well worth sharing, especially with those in their first years of professional life in medicine.