Dr. Steven D. Hsi (pronounced 'she'), a family physician and father of two young sons, was diagnosed in 1995 with a rare coronary disease that caused his death five years later at the age of forty-four. Throughout his ordeals as a patient, including three open-heart surgeries, Dr. Hsi’s outlook on the teaching and practice of medicine changed. In 1997 he began a journal intended for publication after his death. Written with the assistance of newspaper columnist Jim Belshaw and completed posthumously by Hsi’s widow, Beth Corbin-Hsi. Closing the Chart: A Dying Physician Examines Family, Faith, and Medicine is Dr. Hsi’s writings that urge his colleagues to become healers, to look at their patients as human beings with spiritual as well as physical lives.Read about the book
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