So, to my rescue, Henning Mankell's "The Troubled Man" descended from the sky this morning, via electromagnetic waves, into my Kindle. Mmm. With the thought, my tongue wet the lips with anticipation... :)
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Promptly Arrived
I am on the verge of giving up on "House of God." Yes, it is all extremely realistic and true --- the life and work of medical interns in a "teaching hospital," including jabs at Harvard Medical School. But for me it is too depressing to read, precisely because I know all the horrors are true and worse now than 40 years ago.
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The Ending of Le Samourai (1967), Explained
A quick online search after watching Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai confirmed my suspicion: The plot is very rarely understood b...
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I found that our library has it. Would you recommend this book for a non-medical person?
Eugene
Hmm... I don't know. A non-medical reader might assume the content in the book to be some crazy and sick imagination out of the author's head, but a medical person with even a little experience with hospitals would know this is no joke. It might freak you out about going to hospitals, ever. I don't want to scare you about medical care, even though I would not pretend that medicine is not so messed up.
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