Carl Matlock Volgorde van de boeken

When Jack O'Conner heard the words he never wanted to hear, "metastatic cancer," his world came crashing down. With a daughter in college, a son in high school, and a wife to support, his options appeared limited. Normally an optimist, he would need to call on all the inner resources he could muster while looking to a higher power for answers to questions he didn't even know how to ask. Did God have a purpose in his battle for life? Could he find hope and light in this darkness of despair? He had a lot of questions, but few answers.

The book is a memoir of family medicine as practiced in the 1970s in rural America. Although based on actual events, the locations and patients are fictionalized and dramatized and do not represent any one person or encounter.