Gera knyga. Apie gydytojus, jų darbą ir asmeninį gyvenimą. Knyga savotiškai primena ,,Gydytojas, Avicenos mokinys", tik nėra istorijos ir kelionių, labiau šiuolaikiška. Labai daug įdomių minčių apie ligas ir mirtį. Gydytojų ,,mirties komitetas" svarsto kiekvieną mirties atvejį ir jų požiūris: gydytojas padarė klaidą, tai jam niu niu niu ir daugiau taip nedaryk...Bet juk mirė žmogus...Tiesiog mokinasi ant žmonių...Bet iš kitos pusės, o ką daryti? Kaip išmokti? Ir kaip visus atvejus numatyti? Tiesiog didžiulė pagarba gydytojams: kiek jie turi turėti žinių...

In a city like NY they might have had trouble locating the construction job, but in Boston there were still only a few really tall buildings.

I feel that medical fiction is not really my doctor's bag.

Leído en 2019, me gustó mucho

The Death Committee is a dated (late 1960s) book about young doctors in a run down but still active teaching hospital. Noah Gordon's other interest, the interplay of minorities in society, threads through the story. For someone who grew up reading her mother's library, Noah Gordon's writing provides the same comfortable prose as Anya Seton and Taylor Caldwell. I read this in gulps and will probably not retain it. But it felt like home.

Difficult to follow.

Pirma pažintis su autoriumi nenuvylė. Nustebino, kad knyga parašyta taip seniai, o mes tik dabar prie jos prisilietėm. Knygos tematika įdomi, apie gydytojų gyvenimą, konkurenciją, ir norą siekti aukštumų. Persiskaitė lengva, gal pabaigos norėjosi kitokios, atrodo ne iki galo užbaigta.

The story is very much a product of its time and can only be read in the historical context of the late 1960s. Gordon focuses on the medical drama, on a male-centric world of doctors and their heavy responsibilities, and on the uneasy race relations of the time. He does a good job overall, and I looked forward to my commute so that I could keep reading.

"The Death Committee" is very different than other books I've ready by Gordon. Besides being set in the modern era, he decided to tackle pressing social issues, especially how a person's ethnic origins color others' view of that individual and how those origins can be a catalyst for renouncing such a stereotype.

You come to generally like Adam (despite his yucky way with women) and you appreciate the wit of Spurgeon (…the surgeon). Dr. Longwood you could happily have die off, along with the elitist type of medicine that he represents.

The women in the book, however, are flakes. They're anxious, or flighty, or utterly unpredictable, or nymphomaniacs, or some combination of the above. Gordon also calls the female doctors (who play tiny, insignificant roles) "girls." Maybe he decided he couldn't tackle race relations AND equal employment opportunities for women in the same book.

Entretenido más que interesante. Probablemente el libro más pobre que he leído de Noah Gordon.

Labai jaučiasi, kad istorija sena, netekusi aktualumo ir apie nieką. Medicininių terminų vertimas baisus pvz., nitrogen suboxide virsta natrio suboksidu ir pan.

Stopped reading at page 45 after the sixth unnecessary and degrading comment about women's bodies including a child's. Which is sad, because the author wrote one of my all time favorite books (the physician).

My comments in video: https://youtu.be/2Zx1i8maunQ

The origin of the Physician saga..
In this work by the American writer, he prefigures the same elements that we have analyzed in the saga "The Physician" and "Shaman", in which he addresses stories of medicine, from the human perspective, analyzing medical cases, showing stories of personal growth from education and continued effort, with deep criticism of society from the economic, religious and political point of view and delving into the issues of discrimination, as well as important historical events. The story he presents reminded me of the television series ER.
I look forward to your comments.

El origen de la saga del Médico.
En esta obra del escritor norteamericano, prefigura los mismos elementos que hemos analizado en la saga "El médico" y "Chamán", en la que aborda historias de la medicina, desde la perspectiva humana, analizando casos médicos, mostrando historias de crecimiento personal desde la educación y el esfuerzo continuados, con críticas profundas a la sociedad desde lo económico, religioso y político y ahondando en los temas de discriminación, así como hechos históricos importantes. La historia que presenta me recordó la serie de televisión ER.
Espero sus comentarios.

Essentially this is a story of three young doctors finishing their training at a large but rundown hospital in the Boston area.. It is a story without a plot but is woven together by the three men's interactions with patients, other hospital doctors, and each other. Each of the hardworking doctors--a Puerto Rican, an African-America. and a Jew--has a love interest that adds depth and realism to the story.The title subject is not really the point of the book, it being a committee that meets to discover what the young doctors can learn from their mistakes. Appearing before the committee is a harrowing experience but just one of many experiences in the hospital. There is substantial medical detail to give the reader a sense of glimpsing what goes on in a hospital. The book, for this reader, was interesting primarily,because of the varied backgrounds of each of the doctors and the influence of their formative years on their adult actions and attitudes.

While not a gripping book, I do not regret reading it, though was not happy with the novel's sudden ending, leaving me feeling suspended with a lot of questions about the future unanswered.