Acknowledgments

I am sincerely grateful for the help I received when writing this book.

Early readers, who encouraged me to continue, include Julia Friary, CM Northington, Adrianne Taylor and Cathy Warr.

Brian Finnemore, M.D. was an endless source of knowledge and support throughout the early drafts and Jerry Metz, M.D. cheerfully and promptly offered assistance in several ways. Anne Hawkins and Russel Ogden were unstinting in their attempts to help. Ken Viers helped with the Appendix. Harold Keiser had good ideas about cover design.

And Richard Bell, as always, was my compass, steering me steadily through the times of doubt and disappointment toward the ultimate completion of the project.