An initiative of the Indiana Academy of Family Physicians and the Indiana Academy of Family Physicians Foundation, Family Practice Stories is a collection of tales told by, and about, Hoosier family doctors practicing in the middle of the twentieth century. The stories celebrate that time in America considered to be the golden age of generalism in medicine---a time that conjures up Norman Rockwell’s familiar archetypal images of the country family doctor and a time when the art of healing was at its zenith.

Richard D. Feldman, MD, is a lifelong Hoosier who grew up in South Bend, Indiana. He is a 1972 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Indiana University, Bloomington, and a 1977 graduate of the IU School of Medicine. After completing one year of psychiatry residency at IU, he finished his postgraduate medical training at Franciscan Saint Francis Health Family Medicine Residency in 1980, becoming the program’s director in 1981. Feldman is a frequent lecturer on public health and medically related subjects and is past president and chairman of the board of the Indiana Academy of Family Physicians. He holds appointments as an assistant clinical professor of family medicine at the IU School of Medicine and as an associate clinical professor at the Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine. He and his wife reside in Indianapolis and are the parents of three grown sons.