The Listener (Paperback)

With over thirty years’ experience in the medical field, Dr. Mayor has learned a lot about health and humanity. We are more than just our bodies. More than just our minds. As a devoted Christian, husband, dad and grandpa, he sees his interactions with patients as more than simply addressing their physical and emotional needs. He knows that there is also a spiritual element to each person he encounters.

Throughout his career Dr. Mayor has answered patients’ questions about everything from nosebleeds to sex, from cholesterol to aging. He has been with patients as they have taken their last breath and has deepened in his conviction that there is a hopeful future after death. He has also learned from years of listening that words have the power to harm or heal, and that we all suffer from the devastating infection of what he calls “G & C”—grumbling and complaining.

This unique collection of stories, thoughts, and advice puts you in the patient’s chair of an experienced Christian doctor who has your best interest in mind. You’ll smile, you’ll tear up, and you’ll gain plenty of life-changing insight to put into practice today and to benefit from for a lifetime.

He is confident that if the information contained in this book were considered, there would be a substantial reduction of unnecessary Emergency Room visits and therefore health care dollars will be saved. He wants the reader to complete the reading of his book happier and wiser for having spent the time. He wishes for you a wonderful, blessed, happy and healthy tomorrow.

David L. Mayor, MD, MPH, FACEP, has served in the medical profession since 1981 as an emergency physician, occupational medicine physician, and a health educator. In 1976 he married Judy and they raised three boys. And now enjoy grandchildren. With his family, he has gone on multiple medical mission trips to underserved areas around the world. Together with his father, he served as the medical director of a number of large groups consisting of up to forty five thousand people.

A devoted Christian, husband, dad and grandpa, Dr. Mayor enjoyed supporting Judy as she home schooled the boys during the first nine years of their formal education. Judy has supported Dr. Mayor as he led a weekly Bible lecture at the Hinsdale Community House since 1990. They both encourage each other to actively pursues a healthy lifestyle both spiritually and physically-studying the Bible and exercising daily, following the plant-based diet, abstaining from alcohol and smoking. They enjoy any opportunity to spend time with their family. They have fun hiking, traveling, and skiing with family and friends.