Everything Under the Sun: A Family Doctor's Reflections on Life, Love, Loss and Renewed Hope in Medicine

Family medicine encompasses everything about a person. Through multiple personal experiences and clinical vignettes, Dr. Bruce Rowe shares the special moments that define the life of a family physician. Health care professionals will identify with Dr. Rowe’s journey and the many hats he wears in clinical practice: obstetrician, psychiatrist, geriatrician, internist, pediatrician. Midwesterners and small-town residents will appreciate Dr. Rowe’s rural Iowa upbringing and how it impacts his values and bedside approach to patients. Anyone who enjoys a good read about interesting people, entertaining case histories and how medicine can positively affect families and communities will be enriched by reading this book.

A native of Oskaloosa, a small county seat in southeastern Iowa, Dr. Rowe earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from The University of Iowa and completed residency training in family medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin-Waukesha. For the last two-plus decades, he has been an attending physician at the Ascension-Columbia St. Mary's Clinic in Brown Deer, Wisconsin. He enjoys the complexity and variety of primary care medicine, but most importantly, the joyful opportunity to enter into deeply personal therapeutic relationships with individuals from all walks of life. He lives in suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his wife Laura, three daughters and a playful cockapoo named Sasha.