Two Patients is the story of how a physician who practiced abortion came to question the medical status quo and to pioneer an approach to reproductive medicine that respects female fertility, honors the dignity of unborn children, and offers care to patients regardless of their financial situation. Such health care, writes Dr. John Bruchalski is merciful medicine, and his memoir gives a glimpse of just how merciful the realationship between a doctor and his two patients – mother and child –  can be.