Roberta Jeanne d’Arc Cole, known as R.J., is a rebel the first time she defies her beloved father is when she is born a female, the second, when she chooses to study law rather than medicine. But when destiny overtakes R.J. and she realizes that she has inherited the gift,the terrible and instinctive knowledge that someone is about to die her life will be changed forever. As she holds the hands of a sick man, tragically her own lover she bows to the inevitable and becomes a physician. After the tragic death, deciding to move to a small–town practice R.J. must make important choice to make.The doctor Strain is a woman of our time that, with forty years and after to have suffered a recent divorce, he exercises his profession with absolute dedication. Faithful to the family tradition, that has done of the medicine a priesthood, the doctor R. J. he Strain he decides to leave Boston to return al field and to work as a doctor rural. There, in the hills of Massachussetts, she will recover that gift of so peculiar guessing that already distinguished its ancestors and he will discover again those pleasures that the great city had snatched him. After The doctor and Chamán, Noah Gordon finalizes, with The doctor Strain, the history of a family whose avatars has gone us accompanying along the centuries, since the magic of the Middle Ages to the raw reality of our times.

About the Author:Noah Gordon is the author of Death Committee, The Physician, Rabbi, and Shaman, which earned him the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for the best historical novel of 1992. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.