The Light Within the Darkness
DR. ELLIOTT DOBSON is the pseudonym of a physician who is practicing today and who began to lose his eyesight in his thirty-third year. Now in total darkness, a specialist in the field of internal medicine, he handles his large practice, teaches at one of our leading medical schools, and serves as a staff member in a large metropolitan hospital. His article is drawn from the book When Doctors Are Patients, edited by Max Pinner, M.D., and Benjamin F. Miller, M.D., which Norton will publish in April. Other chapters, by Dr. Fredric Wertham and the late Dr. Abraham Myerson, will appear in subsequent issues of the Atlantic.