While bits of this were fascinating, much more was meandering. ( )

An uneven collection of essays resurrected from The American Scholar. ( )

Anyone who mentions the Flexner report without mentioning that it helped to close down pretty much every medical school for black or women doctors has a big heavy stupid white privilege knapsack shoved up his ass. Otherwise not such a bad dude, loved the end piece about his bromance with a heart transplant patient. ( )