A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor (1000 Books to Read)

This 1967 book was about a country doctor, Dr. John Eskell (he is "Doctor Sassall" in the book). The village is St. Briavels in the Forest of Dean.

The video above is an interview with people from that area, 50+ years later. That was interesting.

Here is an article about the people from the area, many years later:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-47731653

It was philosophical in nature. I liked looking at the life of the doctor from his perspective. 

Here is why James Mustich thinks it should be one of the 1000 Books You Read Before You Die:

A Fortunate Man is one of several volumes Berger made in collaboration with the photographer Jean Mohr. An assemblage of narrative episodes, passages of biographical profile, and both poetic and philosophical speculation on the labors of an English country doctor named John Sassall, its quiet power is amplified by Mohr’s black-and-white images of Sassall, his patients, and the landscape in which they dwell. A carefully observed attempt to take the measure of the doctor’s influence on an impoverished community’s experience, A Fortunate Man is a probing meditation on medicine and meaning, conscience and commitment, and other matters of life and death.