With his usual facility, Segal spins a highly readable story that addresses the gravest, most pressing issues facing doctors today. Seth Lazarus, another class member, faces murder charges for a mercy killing. Any information you publish in a comment, profile, work, or Content that you post or import onto AO3 including in summaries, notes and tags, will be accessible. The legendary bestseller international book of Erich Segal has been translated beautifully by Ms Mrinalini Pandey in our mother tongue ie in Hindi in very lucid and simple manner. A medical-school classmate, brilliant black surgeon Bennett Landsmann, encounters racism within and beyond the medical establishment. Best Sellers Rank: 183,393 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) 6,429 in Classic Fiction (Books) Customer Reviews: 4.4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings. Pediatrician Laura is harshly penalized by tyrannical superiors who resent her complaints about their conduct.

Later, Barney, a Manhattan psychiatrist, witnesses the heartwrenching suffering of mental patients at Bellevue Hospital, including his tragically misdiagnosed former basketball coach. 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. Segal nonetheless continued to write, operating on two planes. 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. He wrote eight other novels, including The Class, which was an international bestseller and won literary prizes in France and Italy. The National Book Award for fiction that year went to Saul Bellow for Mr.

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.

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