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Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life by Arthur Conan Doyle explores physicians.

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Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life is a work by Arthur Conan Doyle. Its subjects include Physicians.

From the opening pages: “I quite recognise the force of your objection that an invalid or a woman in weak health would get no good from stories which attempt to treat some features of medical life with a certain amount of realism. If you deal with this life at all, however, and if you are anxious to make your doctors something more than marionettes, it is quite essential that you should paint the darker side, since it is that which is principally presented to the surgeon or physician. He sees many beautiful things, it is true, fortitude and heroism, love and self-sacrifice; but they are all called forth (as our nobler qualities are always called forth) by bitter sorrow and trial. One cannot write of medical life and be merry over it.”

Author
Arthur Conan Doyle
Category
Fiction
Language
English

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