Dr. Percy's hold on medicine / Robert Coles -- The act of seeing with one's own eyes / Ross McElwee -- Why doctors make good protagonists / John Lantos -- From eye to ear in Percy fiction: changing the paradigm for clinical medicine / Martha Montello -- Prozac and the existential novel: two therapies / Carl Elliott -- Ethics in the ruins / David Schiedermayer -- Walker Percy and medicine: the struggle for recovery in medical education / Richard Martinez -- Now you are one of us: gender, reversal, and the good read / Laurie Zoloth -- Inherited depression, medicine, and illness in Walker Percy's art / Bertram Wyatt-Brown -- Pathology rounds with Dr. Percy: the modern malaise, its causes and cure / Brock Eide -- Walker Percy, reluctant physician / Jay Toolson -- Afterword: writing and rewriting stories / John Lantos.