Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Vincent Lam - Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures (2 CDs) (2006)
Audio/Fiction | CBC | ISBN: 0385661444 | English | MP3 CBR 192kbps | 02:28:23 | 206 MB
Winner of the 2006 Giller Prize, Lam has assembled a collection of short stories that follows four characters from their student days, through medical school and into their careers as doctors. Ming is a perfectionist with a dark past and overbearing traditional parents. When she starts dating Fitz, she must keep it a secret from her family. Meanwhile, Chen and Sri, their closest colleagues, join them in cutting up cadavers as they learn the fragile mysteries of the human body. Lam’s prose reads as smoothly as a scalpel slicing flesh (despite a plethora of technical jargon) as he reveals the realities of operating and emergency rooms, air ambulance flights and maternity wards…