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From Publishers Weekly
In his most skillfully written novel to date, Segal ( Love Story , The Class ) tackles a timeworn but engrossing theme: the grueling education of doctors, and the toll exacted by their careers. As Segal sees it, many physicians are "wounded healers" who know that "to care is to crack" in this brutally competitive, sometimes poorly self-policed profession. When childhood friends Barney Livingston and Laura Castellano enter Harvard Medical School in 1958, they are soon physically and emotionally overwhelmed by mountains of demanding coursework, a classmate's suicide and the vivisection of clumsily anesthetized dogs. Later, Barney, a Manhattan psychiatrist, witnesses the heartwrenching suffering of mental patients at Bellevue Hospital, including his tragically misdiagnosed former basketball coach. Pediatrician Laura is harshly penalized by tyrannical superiors who resent her complaints about their conduct. A medical-school classmate, brilliant black surgeon Bennett Landsmann, encounters racism within and beyond the medical establishment. Seth Lazarus, another class member, faces murder charges for a mercy killing. With his usual facility, Segal spins a highly readable story that addresses the gravest, most pressing issues facing doctors today. 250,000 first printing; $250,000 ad/promo; author tour.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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"A superior story . . . A moving and compelling novel of doctors and their fears--how they confront them or are confounded by them."--UPI.
"Segal's best work to date."--New York Post
"Segal's best work to date."--New York Post
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Captivating - yet feels incomplete,
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This review is from: Doctors (Mass Market Paperback)
A long book - over 600 pages but it was very captivating and I have read it in one sitting. The story and the characters are fictional, but their toil as people and as doctors make us relate to their fears and worries about life. I have to say that there was never a moment when I felt compelled to skip pages, Segal keeps it interesting throughout. It will be a captivating read, and it touches upon such issues as euthanasia and doctor's ethics, not to mention the adrenaline of the operating room. The reason I gave the book 4 stars is because I feel Segal did not properly finalize the future of each character. The reader, as it should be, gets attached and curious about each one of the doctors but we only really get to say farewell to a couple of them. Also, some characters undergo a great personality change eg. Palmer - from a wonderful man to a complete scoundrel without much of an explanation but just so that the story line would fit. Still, no book is perfect, I think it is a wonderful read and warmly recommend it.
5.0 out of 5 stars
The inside story,
By Parth Desai (India) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Doctors (Mass Market Paperback)
Eric Segal has done it again.A love story parellel to the challenges of med field.It has clearly described the controversy of med school geniuses and loiters.With the precise words "the wounded healers".
5.0 out of 5 stars
Medical student who felt this book was his life story,
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This review is from: Doctors (Mass Market Paperback)
I felt like Erich Segal had researched my own life and experiences to write his book. Many of my own sleepless nights studying, worrying, questioning my own abilities and sacrifice for my hopeful profession are experienced by the characters in this wonderful book. If any of you out there wonder what medical school or being a doctor is really like, other than ER, I don't think you'll get anything better than this.I think the only thing that detracted from the realism is that many chapters explored the characters lives in what was years in a chapter, but this was necessary or the book would have been at least ten times longer.
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