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"[Terrence Holt] is Melville + Poe + Borges but with a heart far more capacious." (Junot Díaz)

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At the bedside of a hospice patient dying in a house full of cursing parrots in "The Surgical Mask", we reach the limits of what we are able to face in human suffering, in our own horror at what happens to our bodies as they die.

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Great book

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excellent book, phenomenal narration

Loved it, an exquisite book complemented by an excellent theatrical narration; all turned into a work of art.

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Awful.

As a medical student I hated this book. His stories droned on with no point. It was like
he was trying to force memorable characters on us when, they were nothing more than annoying. It didn't make me excited about medicine, I wasn't interested in the outcome of his patients. It was overall a bore.

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Could not get my attention

I read many different medical memoirs and residency accounts and I normally can't put the books down. This was the first one that I couldn't force myself to pick up. Stories were not particularly interesting and blah. Pretty disappointed in this one.

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Disjointed, a serious lack of coherence.

What disappointed you about Internal Medicine?

Extensive time devoted to situations that could have been amply described in a page or two

What could Terrence Holt have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Pick up the pace, treat the reader as a bit more than a simpleton that requires ad nauseam, repetitive descriptions of procedures.

How could the performance have been better?

Contract a narrator with some dynamic range.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Internal Medicine?

The hatchet would be dull there are so many.

Any additional comments?

Not even worthy of finishing on a transcontinental flight.

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