John Stone, M.D., (1936–2008) a noted lecturer and advocate for the teaching of humanities during medical education, was a cardiologist and professor at Emory University School of Medicine. He is also the author of four volumes of poetry—In All This Rain, Renaming the Streets, The Smell of Matches, and Music from Apartment 8—and coeditor of On Doctoring: Stories, Poems, Essays, a widely read anthology of literature and medicine.