Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
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 they split open cadavers, confront police who rough up their patients, and tre
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However. It still had the various issues that make me not really care for the short story as a form. Although you do get some insight, in the context of whatever the current situation being painted is, you don't really...more
A great insight into different cultures, Ming who is Chinese, is driven through her family to reach her highest potential, along the way she shacks up with Fitzgerald, who turns out to have problems, Ming is so organized and sets a schedule for Fitzgerald which does not allow him any free time, not wanting to give the who...more
Some very good true to life medical stories, mixes with some not so great fiction character studies. Worth a read overall though.
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Book Description
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures welcomes readers into a world where the most mundane events can quickly become life or death. By following four young medical students and physicians – Ming, Fitz, Sri and Chen – this debut collection from 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Vincent Lam is a riveting, ...more
Vincent Lam joins the ranks of doctor-writers with his award-winning debut novel. Compared to the popular TV dramas Grey's Anatomy, House, and ER, Bloodletting (set to become a Canadian TV drama itself) offers an intriguing look at na_ve doctors' lives and aspirations while showcasing the humanity and daily dilemmas they face. In both humorous and worst-case scenarios, Lam depicts how students plot their way into med school, develop strange ties to cadavers, break terrible news to patients' fami
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From back cover:
"Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures is an astonishing literary debut, a collection of mature and intricate stories connected through the relationships that develop among a group of young doctors as they move from the challenges of med school to the intense world of emergenc...more
I also had it loaned (and recommended further) by a work peer.
It is a series of chapters that can both stand on their own and be ...more
As a health professional, I really enjoyed this book, as it didn't 'dumb down' the medicine. But it can still be enjoyed by others, thanks to a concise but good glossary at the back of the book.
The only complaint I have is that we didn't really get closure of the characters, only speculation, and t...more
There definately was not as much closure with each of the characters as I would like. There is a lot of speculation and guessing that had to be made in order to really figure out what happened to a character. Also there is a strong charcter change in Fitzgarald from the progressing medical student who actually looked like he was progressing forward to the alchoholic who just wanted to ...more
This book is more about the darker side of medical school and medicine. There...more
The stories were extremely well written and most of them were quite engaging. But to me, the linking of the stories just didn't work -- the links we...more
What did I take from this book? That there are way more failures than successes in emergency rooms. That doctors take deaths as a marginally important daily occurrence, and that they regard having to perform CPR as a time consuming nuisance. All the doctor-characters in the book are interconnected, but they never deve...more
Much has been made of the realism of “Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures”; it is a fairly accurate depiction of a slice of life in the medical p...more

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