number of friends had offered his name when I asked for a recommendation, and so had my midwife, who referred to him as “left of center”: We had already abandoned my son’s first pediatrician for a new doctor by the time it occurred to me that the first pediatrician had been recommended to me almost solely because he did not ask his patients to follow the standard immunization schedule. It was this that defined him as “left of center,” though his attitudes struck me as more typical of right-wing politics.
