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Tragedy, Hope, and a Medical Mystery: 'The Covenant of Water'

Medicine and the Machine

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The Importance of Drama in Surgery

I was always enamored a bit by surgery when I was an intern in India you couldn't get your degree till you did a three-month internship and everything. When I came to America I really felt that medicine was the way to go so if you remember in those days surgery residencies were all pyramidal programs where you know you're famous they famously took foreign graduates and spat them out after two or three years. So I've had a lot of surgeon buddies and I hang around with them and pretty much for all the operations described in this novel I watched it more than a couple of times  and even got to retract and what notso yeah it's fun writing about it

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