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To the world’s best agent, Jane Dystel: I’m so fortunate you champion my work. You are a dear friend.
To Pamela Klinger-Horn: Thank you for your early support for Doctors and Friends. You make people want books, which is the coolest thing ever.
To all the bookstores, libraries, and bookstagrammers: The world would be a bleak place without your literary evangelism. I wish I could list you all!
To Writing Group, INK (aka Tracy Curtis, Bess Kercher, and Trish Rohr): I’m not sure what we did to bring down the wrath of the universe upon us last year, but I am certain we could not have made it through without each other. You are such a blessing and so talented.
To my med school babes: Jill Howell Berg, Whitney Arnette Jamie, Kelli Miller, Kristin Rager, Christina Terrell, and Casey Dutton-Triplett: If your patients ask, none of the individual characters in Doctors and Friends are us, but our decades of devoted friendship definitely provided the inspiration for this novel. I’ll never stop being grateful that we found each other that first week of medical school.
To my beloveds: my sister, Shannan Rome; my best friend, Heather Burkhart; and my extraordinary mother, Judy Martin, I don’t think I could bear life without you, let alone get these dang books written. There is no one on earth I look up to more than the three of you.
To Jim, Katie, Alex, and Annie: Never has a wife or mother been blessed with a more glorious family. You are all funny, feisty, and dear beyond words. I love you.
And finally, to COVID: Fuck you.
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