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Cole Family Trilogy #3

La doctora Cole

noah gordon jordi mustieles

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La doctora Cole es una mujer de nuestro tiempo. Tiene en su haber cuarenta años, un divorcio reciente y una licenciatura en medicina que le permite ejercer su profesión con dignidad y dedicación absoluta. Sin embargo, en USA el arte de curar se ha convertido en una pura burocracia y la relación con los pacientes es cada día más distante.
Fiel a la tradición familiar, que ha hecho de la medicina un sacerdocio, R. J. Cole decide dejar las comodidades de su apartamento de Boston para volver al campo y trabajar como médico rural. Es ahí, en las agrestas colinas de Massachusetts, donde finalmente podrá recobrar ese don de advinación tan peculiar que ya distinguió a sus antepasados, y donde volverá a desubrir aquellos placeres personales que la gran ciudad le había arrebatado.

496 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1995
Series
Cole Family Trilogy
Literary awards
premio euskadi de plata, 
Places
woodfield massachusetts, boston massachusetts, 

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496 pages, Paperback
Published
September 28, 2005 by Ediciones B
ISBN
9788466617888
ASIN
8466617884
Language
English
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n0thinglasts
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
April 17,2025
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R.J.s Geschichte gefiel mir besser als Shamans und auch irgendwie besser als die von Rob. Eine starke Frau, die ihren Weg geht und zu sich selbst findet. Auch wenn es sich nach 50 Seiten schon einmal wie ein Ende anfühlte. Es kam auch noch Drama zwischendurch, das ich nicht gebraucht hätte, die Aufarbeitung war dann wieder okay. Aber leider hat das Ende mir das Buch ein bisschen verleidet. R.J. schien sich gerade gefunden zu haben und dann schmeißt ein Ereignis ( also die Schwangerschaft ) alles nochmal um und es wird deutlich gemacht, dass sie dadurch erst richtig zu sich findet. Weil eine Frau ja nur so Erfüllung finden kann? Normalerweise macht es mir ja nicht direkt was aus, wenn diese Wendung noch kommt, aber hier ging es mir echt quer.
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CHANGnosia
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April 17,2025
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This 3rd book in the Cole trilogy, continues with the contemporary descendant of the family, RJ Cole(the R stands for Roberta) who is the 1st female Cole doctor endowed with the "gift" of detecting prognosis by the holding of hands. She gives up a on bad marriage to a surgeon, a house in an expensive area, and a city practice, to set up a general practice in a rural setting in her country home in the Berkshires in Western Massachussets. The novel deals with many quandaries of modern medical practice in a small town setting. Issues include in great detail the abortion debate in the US with violence initiated by pro-lifers against the practitioners. There is a discussion of the shortcomings of a society where a large number of people cannot afford medical care & have no insurance. There is a discussion of old age, placements, & end of life situations. As in both previous books, there is a presentation of Jewish themes, as RJ falls in love with a Jewish man-David, an ex-rabbi & current writer, but the relation breaks up over the unfortunate death of his 17 year old daughter Sarah as a result of abortion complications, this having been initiated by RJ at the request of Sarah, unbeknownst to her father. RJ loves small town practice & the people she encounters in this rural mountainside setting. She winds up pregnant when David returns to her after several years of silence & alcoholism from which he recuperates in an Orthodox Jewish community. Still they breakup when she feels that David hasn't really forgiven her. The book ends with her pregnant but alone, immersed in her busy & engrossing work.
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looseleaftea
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April 17,2025
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The last book of the trilogy is set in present day. Similar to the other two books, Dr. Roberta J. Cole has the special gift that she can tell the life/death of someone just by holding their hand.

Dr. Cole starts out in Boston in a busy world with many responsibilities and wants to get away to the quieter life. After getting a divorce, she moves to a back woods kind of place and opens up a private practice. She meets a father and daughter and falls in love with both of them. Tradegy strikes and everything is just broken apart. Dr. Cole manages to come through and thrives with her practice. In the end she gets what she wants, well almost.
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walloman
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April 17,2025
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I have to agree with several other reviewers. This book does not feel like it was written by the same author as the first two in the Cole Family trilogy (which were both excellent) and just had a different style in its story. I think it actually was pretty good as a stand-alone story but not near the caliber of the others. Also since it occurs relatively recently in the second half of the 20th century, I don’t think it quite qualifies as historical fiction. The main character’s dedication to medicine and helping others is admirable but otherwise she is not that likable of a character.
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serainoran
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April 17,2025
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Der dritte Teil der "Medicus-Reihe" hat mit seinen Vorgängern so rein gar nichts mehr zu tun und das fand ich am Anfang des Hörbuchs auch recht befremdlich. Aber je weiter ich gehört hatte und als ich mich geistig davon verabschiedet hatte, dass dieses Buch Teil der Reihe ist, hat es mir doch sehr gut gefallen.

Es spiel in unserer Zeit und man begleitet die Ärztin RJ Cole auf ihrem Weg als Hausärztin in einem kleinen Dorf Amerikas und wie sie zu diesem Job kam. Ich fand die Dinge, die ihr dort widerfahren und die Situationen in denen sie sich befand doch recht authentisch und musste immer mal wieder schmunzeln, weil ich das ein oder andere auch selbst so erlebt habe. Es werden einfach die Höhen aber auch die Tiefen des Hausarztdaseins erzählt und natürlich darf eine kleine Liebesgeschichte dabei nicht fehlen. Diese war zwar teilweise etwas schnulzig, aber es ging grade noch
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BlessedKingGhost
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April 17,2025
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Iba con muchas dudas a la hora de leerme este libro, porque me he leído los dos anteriores y he visto como trata Noah Gordon a sus protagonistas femeninas (Noah, para tener tantas mujeres en tu vida, necesitas estudiarlas más a fondo, de verdad). Y que la protagonista de este libro sea mujer, me asustaba.

No sin fallos, he de reconocer que este libro ha reconducido, de buena manera, el "chafón" que me produjo Chamán. Si bien nos encontramos con una doctora Cole que en los principios de la novela da un paso para delante y cuatro para atrás, conforme se acaba desarrollando la novela, podríamos decir que se queda en dos pasos para delante y uno para atrás. Así que eso es un punto a favor.

También, a favor, decir que vuelve a tratar el tema de la medicina como en la primera novela (no hay novedad, pero si conocimiento de técnicas, enfermedades y términos que podemos asociar a nuestros). Así que es de agradecer que el tema político, si bien no desaparece, se queda en un segundo plano y la medicina vuelve a arrollar, si no con fuerza, con un amago de esta.

La única cosa que no me ha gustado para nada en todo lo largo de la novela es que R.J. no sabe vivir sin un hombre en su vida. Es cierto que al final del libro, muy al final (mi ejemplar tiene 378 páginas y esta revelación aparece en la 348), descubre que se quiere más a si misma que a cualquier hombre. Aleluya! Pero, como que se queda corto. No sé si me explico.

En general, un libro entretenido que ha conseguido, en gran medida, quitarme el mal sabor de boca que se me quedo con Chamán.
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Ylteal
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April 17,2025
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This book was such a disappointment. I really enjoyed the first two books in the The Cole Family Series and was eager to read this one. But, boy. I felt that Gordon't handling of the protagonist R.J. was so incredibly clumsy. It's as if the task of voicing a female character overwhelmed him. There were little things that just felt so off, little comments that didn't need to be included but sounded like a man's stereotypical idea of what a woman would think and want. I remember R.J. having a cup of sweetened coffee and Gordon writes that the coffee was "sure to put on the pounds." Also, the plot was meandering and felt like it was going nowhere. And in the end, it didn't. The end was predictable. I mean, I literally said, "Of course" and rolled my eyes. There were chunks of the book dedicated to a secondary character that I just skipped altogether because I couldn't care less about him. So overall, it was a real disappointment. I longed for the elegant and neat storytelling of the two previous books in the series.
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