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Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures

By Vincent Lam

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| Paperback | 9781602860568

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Now in paperback: Twelve interwoven stories follow four young and ambitious doctors as they move from the challenges of medical school to the intense world of emergency rooms, evacuation missions, and terrifying new viruses. They fall in love as they study for their exams, face moral dilemmas as thContinue

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Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures / By Vincent Lam

Doubleday Canada, 353 pp, $29.95, hardcover. Was it Margaret Laurence who owned this joke? She's at a 1960s cocktail party-bosomy and likely bombed-and a surgeon chitchats that he plans to write a novel when he finally retires from medicine. "Yes, an ... (read full critics)

straight published on Mon, 30 Aug 2010

2 Reviews

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 | Add your feedback

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 | Add your feedback