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  Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures: Stories
  

  by Vincent Lam

  ISBN 1602860009 (1-60286-000-9)
  Hardcover, Little Brown & Co

  
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  Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
  

  by Vincent Lam

  ISBN 1602860564 (1-60286-056-4)
  Softcover, Weinstein Books

  
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  Book summary:

  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. Lams 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. Lam is capable of fine descriptions (the "melon color" of afternoon light) as well as striking awkwardness ("Entering the exam hall&from the whipping chaos of the snowstorm was to be faced with a void.") The power of these stories is his ability to allow the reader to empathize with both victim and healer. Although a few of the stories feel like scenes from ER, several work extremely well. A harrowing story about the SARS epidemic ("Contact Tracing"), set in a Toronto hospital, gives the reader an intimate, inside view, while a story that explores the mind of a psychotic ("Winston") can leave the reader feeling unnerved and groundless. --Mark Frutkin [via]

  More editions of Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures:

  • Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures: ISBN 0385661444 (0-385-66144-4)
    Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
  • Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures: ISBN 0385661436 (0-385-66143-6)
    Hardcover, Doubleday Canada, Limited
  • Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures: ISBN 0385665458 (0-385-66545-8)
    Hardcover, Doubleday Canada, Limited
  • Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures: ISBN 1602860564 (1-60286-056-4)
    Softcover, Weinstein Books
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  The Flu Pandemic and You: A Canadian Guide
  

  by Vincent Lam , Colin Lee, Margaret Atwood

  ISBN 0385662777 (0-385-66277-7)
  Softcover, Doubleday Canada, Limited

  
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  • The Flu Pandemic and You: A Canadian Guide: ISBN 0385662777 (0-385-66277-7)
    Softcover, Doubleday Canada, Limited