Novels about medicine

[Iwanuschka]

Could someone recommend me some good novels which feature practitioners of medicine as their protagonists and deal with the problems that they have to face during their workshifts?

Thanks :bigear:

[Kyriakos]

Definately Madame Bovary :)

Also there are a number of short stories by Chechov that have doctors as their protagonists, for example "The Enemies".

[kasie]

A J Cronin - The Citadel. It shows medicine as practised in a Welsh mining valley town ninety-odd years ago so it may be a little more old-fashioned than you require but I can sort of vouch for its authenticity - Cronin was my mother's doctor when she was a little girl! She said he was a dour man and he terrified her but he cured her of some mystery illness that sounded much like meningitis to me. I suspect the bits about the sewers are true but the way they solved the problem has a touch of dramatic licence for me. There are other medical books by Cronin including stories about a Scottish GP, Dr Findlay's Casebook, televised successfully a few years ago - OK, a good many years ago...

Someone is sure to mention Maugham's Of Human Bondage - the main character ends up as a doctor but that is the part of the book I personally (and I do stress personally) find least convincing.

[dfloyd]

Made into a 30s movie starring Ronald Coleman. Also a very popular book of 1954 about the trials and tgribulations of young doctors: Not as a Stranger by Morton Thompson. Movie was made shortly thereafter with Robert Mitchum and Frank Sinatra. Thompson was a doctor turned writer.