![]() ![]() The first few stories provide the reader with portraits of these physicians in their youth, while the rest diverge into crossroads following their respective professional and personal lives. Fitzgerald, the fourth protagonist, is a loner who uses alcohol to exorcise his demons. The characters have strong initial presentation, but this falters towards the denouement.Ī scene in the anatomy lab introduces us to three of the protagonists as first-year medical students: Ming, the acerbic, scalpel-happy, left-brain dominant Type A personality, Sri, a sensitive soul who insists on naming the cadaver, and Chen, the peacekeeper who prevents Ming and Sri from vivisecting each other. Bloodletting is an honest and revealing work, which entertains while challenging the reader to reflect on some of the ethical issues presented. ![]() Vincent Lam’s Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures is a collection of twelve short stories chronicling the lives of four physicians and the patients that they encounter. ![]()
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