In "Dr. Galen's Little Black Bag," we follow the man that Berto Galen, the boy from the New Jersey Tenements, has become, as he deals with the pleasures, traumas, and tragedies of life in the medical profession. Like R.A. Comunale's "Berto's World," it is a collection of stories, but together these stories create a portrait of someone who is deeply dedicated to healing-even as he struggles to heal the hurts and wounds he has suffered over a lifetime. And like the preceding collection, "Dr. Galen's Little Black Bag" presents basic human truths, dressed of necessity in the cloak of fiction.
