SAN FRANCISCO, CA - April 30, 2026 - Physician-author Stephen Kaufman, M.D. announces the forthcoming release of Reflections, a distinctive compilation that brings together his writing from 1963 to 2025, curated into a single volume that moves fluidly across storytelling, medicine, humor, memoir, and intellectual inquiry.
In the Preface, Kaufman describes Reflections as a carefully selected body of work that excludes technical medical papers, while preserving pieces intended for general readers—ranging from early short stories to later essays shaped by a long clinical life
The book is structured to reflect the breadth of the author’s interests and experience. It includes short stories (some never submitted for publication), followed by medical essays that are “mostly psychological and philosophical,” many inspired by Kaufman’s years as a pediatrician and pediatric endocrinologist.
Beyond that, the collection expands into satire, travel, sports reflections, mythology and Joseph Campbell-inspired material, and a concluding section of letters and documents that complete the portrait of a life in ideas, practice, and memory.
'Reflections' will appeal to readers who enjoy:
- thoughtful memoir and personal narrative,
- medicine-informed reflections on human development and society,
- short fiction and satire, and
- wide-ranging essays that connect lived experience with big questions.
It also offers moments of humor and creativity through its fiction and satirical elements resonating deep reflection and insight.
About the Author
Stephen Kaufman, M.D. has practiced Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology for decades and has served as a clinical professor of Pediatrics at UCSF, with clinical staff involvement at CPMC. His writing reflects a career spent at the intersection of science, family life, ethics, culture, and the inner world of memory.
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