The Longest Mile

Winner of the Gold Medal in the 2016 Living Now Book Awards In the course of their lifetime, one out of two men and one out of three women will be diagnosed with cancer. Many of us watch in desperation as our friends and loved ones fight for their lives. But after seeing several of her patients and her dearest aunt engage in a battle with cancer, Dr. Christine Meyer decided to embark on a quest for hopeand through happenstance and love, a team of runners emerged that empowered a community to make a difference, not only in the lives of cancer patients, but in one anothers lives. Along the way, Meyer learned that the true measure of a doctors success is not the number of lives saved but the number of lives touched.