One Doctor: A Physician's Diary

About the Book

One Doctor: A Physician’s Diary contains over eighty moving stories as they appeared in the Courier-Post, Southern New Jersey’s largest newspaper. Dr. Marzili’s stories focus on the human side of medicine in a stirring and compelling manner. Readers feel like they are in the room with Dr. Marzili and are offered a rare glimpse into the doctor-patient relationship. They are witness to the hopes, fears, suffering and raw courage experienced by patients and their families as they go through their medical ordeals. The book begins as you join Dr. Marzili on the first day of his residency as he is called to pronounce a dead patient. You will sit with him in horror as a medical school instructor uncaringly presents a terrified seventeen year old girl who has just been paralyzed. Ride with him to the streets of Camden, New Jersey to find beauty in a dying AIDS patient amidst the squalor of the city. Enter a dark and lonely hospital room where a murderer awaits. Struggle to answer a young boy’s questions about life and death. Uncover the surprising causes of an elderly man’s bruises and a young man’s rash. Tell an irate and threatening father that his baby has died. Teach a valuable lesson to a suicidal young girl. Watch a war hero as he goes to his final reunion. This book is must reading for anyone entering the medical profession or for anyone whose life has been touched by a medical crisis. Readers will easily relate to these moving stories. One Doctor: A Physician’s Diary is sure to touch your heart and bring a tear to your eye.

About the Author

Thomas Marzili, M.D. is a family physician who practices in Voorhees, N.J., a suburb of Philadelphia. He is a 1990 graduate of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Camden, N.J. and had been in private practice since 1993. Since 1998, Dr. Marzili has been writing his Physician’s Diary column for the Courier-Post, the largest newspaper in Southern New Jersey. He lives in Marlton, New Jersey with his wife and two children.