Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures

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• Rage Therapy

  Linda L. Richards We barely think about emergency medical practitioners. Maybe we even try not to. They only come to mind in, you know, emergencies, when they're suddenly the most important person in our life. For a few hours. A broken collarbone, a ... (read full critics)

  januarymagazine published on Fri, 8 Oct 2010

• Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures

  Vincent Lam, a Canadian A&E doctor, states in an interview in the back of this edition that he wanted to write from the time he was a child but chose medicine as a day job out of necessity. Here he fuses his two specialty subjects in a moving novel-c ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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  The book is a collection of inter-related short stories revolving around the lives of 4 young doctors. The stories give the humanity side in the medical world. Each story reveals a bit more about the characters, and portrays some of the cases a doctor might have to work on.

  I enjoyed reading ... (continue)

  The book is a collection of inter-related short stories revolving around the lives of 4 young doctors. The stories give the humanity side in the medical world. Each story reveals a bit more about the characters, and portrays some of the cases a doctor might have to work on.

  I enjoyed reading this book very much!

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  Tiny said on Aug 20, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  It's pretty good, for the most part pretty well written, but I feel a bit ripped off by it. It's sort of a collection of stories, but they're about the same group of people, a group of doctors as they go from pre-med to doctors to wherever they end up, so you keep coming back to certain people. But ... (continue)

  It's pretty good, for the most part pretty well written, but I feel a bit ripped off by it. It's sort of a collection of stories, but they're about the same group of people, a group of doctors as they go from pre-med to doctors to wherever they end up, so you keep coming back to certain people. But I feel a bit ripped off because you only get glimpses of each one and I'd rather have just had one story, instead of snippets of several. And also I'm a little tired of the -here are several people and here are their stories and here are how they connect- thing.

  And I feel a bit ripped off because Vincent Lam is more properly known as Dr. Vincent Lam, and congratulations to him for being both a doctor and now an accomplished, award-winning author, but unlike the Scotiabank Giller Prize jury I don't feel so much like this is a glimpse into the metaphoric but really and truly just a story about doctors and what they do. Maybe I didn't read closely enough - I am bad for that. Maybe there's a whole other -something- I could have gotten from this book if I hadn't read it like I'd watch a medical drama on tv, just wondering what'll happen next. I guess I'll have to read it again in 2 or 3 years to see about that.

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  Hold Your Spin said on Jan 22, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Audio CD
• Edition: Library
• ISBN-10: 1423345959
• ISBN-13: 9781423345954
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed
• Pub date: Sep 04, 2007
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette and eBook

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