Offering examples of how to make medicine better for the healers and those they serve, If I Betray These Words profiles clinicians across the country who are tough, resourceful, and resilient, but feel trapped between the patient-first values of their Hippocratic oath and the business imperatives of a broken healthcare system.

When a wanna-be psychologist comes to the idyllic town of the same name, he offers his talent for listening, and a disarming frankness as the town's quirkiest citizens scramble for a seat on his couch. As he lightens hearts darkened by old secrets, including those of the beautiful and troubled Sofie Crisp, no one realizes he's hiding a whopper of his own, or that he's fallen head over heels for one of his patients.