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    <body><![CDATA[I thought I was sick of navel-gazing confessionals from self-absorbed physicians who think that the entire world is dying to know about the ins and outs of medical life (are you listening, Atul Gawande?)  But a former anatomy tutor of mine with a penchant for latin and greek put it in my mailbox.  h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39650735">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fans of the show &quot;House&quot; may enjoy this (not you, Stepf ;) true story, as the narrator is a doctor of internal medicine who diagnoses mysterious ailments. However, the crux of the book concerns his friendship with an ex-tennis pro turned medical student who happens to be a recovering cocai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52112352">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book because of the relationship it told between two men.  (It seems most books I read have to do with women to women, or women to men).  This is a true story about a professor of medicine at UTEP and a friendship he developed with a student who had a past history of drug abuse.  The bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47267433">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have been thinking about how I will review this one since I read it, and I would like to start with why five stars became four (after a couple of months).<br/>First of all, the chapters that are flashbacks of tennis---boring.  I felt that they had NOTHING to do with the story and while tennis cle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49017481">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was amazing. It's been about a year since I've read a book almost entirely in one sitting and then tried to draw out the last 40 pages because I didn't want it to end. This book was insightful and poignant without being cheesy – a true accomplishment. I think it also did a great job at p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62985206">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is  a great book.  It explores the realtionship between two men, one a doctor and the other a medical studetn.  The relationship evolves around tennis but takes on deep roots becasue of things going on in these characters lives.  I really enjoyed this booka dn would encourage male friends to re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49014703">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just finished the third of the Verghese oeuvre and this one was 1. devastating at the end 2. Not as good as the other two books and 3.I'm still glad I read it. As a former amateur tennis player, I enjoyed the tennis related material. However, there was nowhere enough of this and it appears that Verg...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44455572">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is a moving and ultimately sad book, full of information about medicine and drug addiction, but also about friendship and the ultimate impossibility of saving another person who does not want to be saved.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this on the heels of Verghese's Cutting for Stone, which is truly fantastic.  This memoir has much of his same lovely style of writing, but the story is painful, and the book a bit hard to stick with.  Great insight into addiction.  (And to tennis - though I admit to not being particularly in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75963364">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In this book, Dr. Verghese retells the story of his experience with a young medical school student struggling with an addiction to heroin.  Throughout the book, Dr. Verghese describes the development of a friendship with this young pupil.  As Dr. Verghese struggles to understand his addiction and to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25951371">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An artful tale of a story of a connection (over tennis!) between a physician and a medical student - harrowing, heartfelt, and heartbreaking, it's well worth the read!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite books of all time.  Verghese manages to sum up what tennis, male friendships and how addiction destroys lives all in one tidy little package.  Wow.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[11/28/2007:  I started reading this a couple days ago.  This guy is a Malayali.  I love reading about the addiction, the medicine, and the tennis.  A good writer.  <br/><br/>12/11/2007:  I'm nearing the end of this book.  It has been really good.  I like the retelling of grand slam finals that I r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7659712">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hmm, I truly cannot give this book a rating. It was powerful and depressing all in one. <br/><br/>Okay, after pondering it, I rate it a 3...writing was great, but a little too somber of a tone for my taste!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as masterful as some of Verghese's writing, but a decent read that allows you to see how a doctor handles a friend who is also a patient]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty good book about a doctor who tries to help his friend during drug recovery.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyed reading about both the medical information and revisiting some tennis history.  ]]></body>
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