![]() In the early material, Lam is strong: the exacting Ming is a young woman torn between family custom, great grades, and a thirst for intimacy. Like the postmidnight ER, the book pumps out breathless episodes but skirts the nuances and layers of character that inform life's more frantic moments.īloodletting's 12 stories are linked by four students we meet in med school and follow deep into their careers in Toronto. Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures is the first book by emergency physician Vincent Lam. No, fiction's not brain surgery, but short stories demand similar fondness for detail, a steady hand, and faith in technique. ![]() "Yes, and I plan to do a little brain surgery after the writing dries up," Laurence snarks. ![]() Was it Margaret Laurence who owned this joke? She's at a 1960s cocktail party-bosomy and likely bombed-and a surgeon chitchats that he plans to write a novel when he finally retires from medicine. Doubleday Canada, 353 pp, $29.95, hardcover. ![]()
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