Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Book description
An astonishing literary debut centred around four students as they apply to medical school, qualify as doctors and face the realities of working in medicine, from a powerful new voice in fiction.
In this beautifully written collection, Vincent Lam weaves together black humour, investigations of both common and extraordinary moral…
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1 author picked Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I was wowed by these completely compelling interconnected short stories by Canadian emergency physician Vincent Lam. Lam deftly chronicles the lives and relationships of a group of medical students as they move through their grueling studies into the sometimes terrifying world of the hospital doctor.
Wrought as if with the sharpest of scalpels, this fine collection is perfect for those who like their medical dramas, full of real characters and served with grisly detail.
From Jacinta's list on doctors that show their professional struggles.
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