His friend Luria, "a pioneer of a newer and more profound medicine," told him: "You are discovering a whole new field... Please publish your observations. This will do something to change the 'veterinary' approach to peripheral disorders and open the way to a deeper, more humane medicine." And that is precisely what the renowned author and physician, who currently works at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine as a clinical professor of neurology, is doing. "The book could be considered a kind of neurological novel or short story, but it is a story at its core, personal experience and neurological truth." In it, the physician-author expresses his personal experience of a particular pathological approach resulting from a leg injury, "an injury with strange effects, resulting from an accident on a mountain in Norway." It is an "abyss of wondrous and even terrifying effects," which has left in the author "ever since a deeper sense of the horror and wonder that lie behind life, hidden, so to speak, behind the usual superficial appearance of health." In this novel, as the narrator says, "the main ideas blend with the 'special neuropsychological and existential phenomena associated with my injury and recovery, the issue of my being a patient and my subsequent return to the outside world, the complexities of the doctor-patient relationship and the difficulties of dialogue between them, especially in matters that are confusing to both, and the application of my discoveries to a large group of patients...'" leading "ultimately to a critique of current neuroscience and a vision of what the neuroscience of the future might be like." The author divides his novel into stations, beginning with a description of his leg injury during a mountain climbing trip and his description of the feelings and emotions he experienced: "I went through what I thought would be my last day on earth." He then describes how he was saved. "And I Became a Patient" is the title of the second station, in which he describes everything he experienced during his illness and surgery. He focuses on the reciprocal relationship between him and the doctor, and on the patient's condition, which he expresses in the third station, "The World of Oblivion," as a journey "to despair and back, a journey of the soul..." This is followed by the "activation" phase, which he describes as "these endless, empty days." In the fifth station, he discusses how to implement the "walking solution" and move his injured leg, at a time when he was wondering: "How can I walk?", "How can I move a phantom mass of jelly... a mirage hanging loosely from my hip?" In the last two stations, "Recovery" and "Understanding," the doctor explores feelings of healing and regaining freedom, and the state of comprehension and understanding of the medical experience. In "The 1991 Commentary," the author recounts the continuation of his story and its implications, concluding: "Neuroscience must now make a great leap, to leap from a mechanistic model, the "traditional" model it has long embraced, to a model of the brain and mind that is entirely personal and self-referential.