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Summary: a wonderful read
Review: A great book thst anyone, not just aspiring doctors can relate to. Quite real and made me think hard and long about my career decision to be a medical practitioner
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Summary: Captivating - yet feels incomplete
Review: 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.
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Summary: Nice form a historical and research point of view...
Review: As another reader mentioned, it was nice to read the historical events combined so nicely and smoothly in the book. The book also gives a pretty wide view on all medical fields and lets us "experience" them, and what
On the other hand, I found a HUGE flow in the book: the story is VERY predictable... Take Barney and Laura's relationship, or various people's choice of residency.
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Summary: Real Life
Review: As someone that has gone through the unique experience of medical school (and survived) I have to say that although this book is fiction, it is the closest thing to my own experience that I have found. If you want a clear representation of what medical school is like, this is the book. I highly reccomend it for anyone who is interested in going to medical school.
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Summary: Rites of passage
Review: Childhood friends and neighbours Laura Castellano and Barney Livingston have a special closeness all the way through their school years and then into their studies at medical school where both of them excell. Barney studies psychiatry and becomes a top man in his field while Laura specialises in early childhood ailments, especially in new babies. This story follows them and their immediate circle of friends through the trials and tribulations of their training years, into their internships and then into the years that they either enter private practice ot take up hospital positions. I found this story to be a real eye-opener as I hadn't thought about the intense mental and physical stresses imposed upon medical students and how they have to be of a particularly strong character to be able to withstand these pressures without cracking.
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Summary: excellent book with a combination different genres...
Review: Doctors is the book you'll need when you want to read but don't know what to pick up. Segal has the ability to write on the mystique of medical school, the human psyche, true love and non-fictional twined into one fabulous novel. Take the tour into this med school and live the drama!
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Summary: The inside story
Review: 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".
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Summary: A Wonderful Book About Life As A Doctor
Review: I am college student studying in the medical field and this book brought me to some of the realities of the real doctor world. It was a great book and I Really enjoyed it.
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Summary: Medical student who felt this book was his life story
Review: 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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Summary: One of my favorites...
Review: It's one of the only non-SK, non-DK books I really like (SK-Stephen King, DK-Dean Koontz). I've reread this one many times over the years. There's just something about the the way every characters story comes together to form the whole, gripping tale that hooked me. The way the past blends into the present, and all the twists and turns. Right up until the end. I found there to be some things/details missing (having reread it many times, you notice and wonder what happend to ____?) or intentionally left a bit vague, perhaps to allow one's own conclusions. Something to think about afterwards. In any case, I love this story and will likely read it again sometime.
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