Lam touches on a lot key moments in a doctor’s medical career, from getting accepted to medical school, to the first cadaver lab, to the long nights of residency, losing a patient, and even working during a pandemic. He also draws on his experience in international air evacuation medicine and his knowledge of influenza pandemics to create richly detailed fictional accounts. Vincent Lam takes the reader behind the scenes of the medical world, from medical school to residency to the emergency room and the operating room. In a series of twelve interlinked short stories, Dr. Ming, Fitz, Sri, and Chen come from different backgrounds and have different career paths awaiting them. “Her family, she said, was modern in what they wanted for her education, and old-fashioned in what they imagined for her husband.”įour young medical school students start out on the road to becoming doctors, sure of their nobility of purpose and their calling, the real and trying rigours of the medical profession still ahead of them.
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