Sensing Light

<p><strong>"A POWERFUL WORK OF FICTION THAT AUTHENTICALLY EVOKES THE BAD AND THE GOOD."</strong><em>--Eric Goosby MD US Global AIDS Coordinator 2009-13</em></p><p><strong>"A MOVING STORY OF DOCTORS NAVIGATING THE INTERSECTIONS OF SUFFERING AMBITION AND DISCOVERY."</strong><em>--Krista Bremer </em> My Accidental Jihad</p><p>This breakout book by Mark A. Jacobson a leading Bay Area HIV/AIDS physician follows three people from vastly different backgrounds who are thrown together by a shared urgency to find out what is killing so many men in the prime of their lives. Kevin a gay medical resident from working class Boston has moved to San Francisco in search of acceptance of his sexual identity. Herb a middle-aged supervising physician at one of the nation's toughest hospitals struggles with his own emotional rigidity. And Gwen a divorced mother raising a teen daughter is seeking a sense of self and security while endeavoring to complete her medical training. Mark A. Jacobson a professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco and attending physician at San Francisco General Hospital began his internship in 1981 just days after the CDC first reported a mysterious fatal disease affecting gay men.</p>