Binding: Paperback
Description: The beloved Irish Country series continues in A Dublin Student Doctor a moving deeply human story from New York Times US a Today and Globe and Mail bestselling author Patrick Taylor. Doctor Fingal O Reilly the quarrelsome general practitioner of the small village of Ballybucklebo wasn t always the man he is today. Beloved author Patrick Taylor turns back the clock to give us a portrait of the young Fingal and show us the pivotal events that shaped the man he would become. In the 1930s fresh from a stint in the Royal Navy Reserve and against the wishes of his disapproving father Fingal O Reilly arrives in Dublin to study medicine. The hours he dedicates to Trinity College and Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital are long and arduous but Fingal manages to find time to box and play rugby and to romance a fetching gray - eyed nurse named Kitty O Hallorhan. Dublin is a harsh city where brutal poverty breeds diseases that the limited medical knowledge of the time is often ill - equipped to handle. His teachers warn Fingal not to become too attached to his patients but can he truly harden himself to the suffering he sees all around him or can he find a way to care for his patients without breaking his own heart?
Title: A Dublin Student Doctor
Author(s): Taylor Patrick
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Barcode: 9781250332172
Pages: 496 Pages
Publication Date: 3/12/2024
Category: Fiction: Special Features