The Barefoot Prophet

It has been said that the baseball sage Yogi Berra, on being asked one day why he was talking to a rookie baseball player, responded I m learning him my experience . In The Barefoot Prophet Ernest Kraybill has done that for us. Throughout a career as a physician and teacher, Dr. Ernest Kraybill has been a master clinician, teacher, and exemplar of social responsibility. He has been a sensitive, insightful and principled counselor to patients, a teacher, advisor and mentor to students, residents and colleagues, and an inspiration to many. Dr. Kraybill has distilled some of his experiences, lessons and values into a series of vignettes that are both warm and crisp in style, global in reach, and often fresh and penetrating in insight. The stories provide authentic insight into many issues, concerns, and developments in health care practice over the last half century especially in the newish specialty of neonatology of which Dr. Kraybill is among the founding members. Stuart Bondurant, MD Emeritus Dean, UNC School of Medicine Ernest Kraybill has put together a delightful collection of stories from his career as a physician which he calls that fallible human enterprise. From his life as a primary care physician in rural Virginia, to collaboration with doctors about the care of premature infants in East Germany (before the fall of the Berlin Wall), he reveals his deep commitment to his calling and compassion for patients. Reading this book is an opportunity to stand in the shoes of an outstanding physician and to gain a mini medical education in the process. Robert Seymour Minister Emeritus, The Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church