The two of them have always been best friends-nothing more-so when Laura marries a Boston Brahmin, that's okay by Barney. Such is the fate of Doctors, which follows the careers of a number of M.D.s, Harvard '62, and begins promisingly, by exploring the rigors and black ironies of reed school-how it chews up our best and brightest and spits them out, how, as main character, Barney Livingston, says, doctors ""are the most vulnerable of human beings."" We watch as Barney and his neighbor from Brooklyn, the brilliant and beautiful Laura Castellano, suffer through their first year at Harvard, including suicide attempts, lousy cafeteria coffee, hair-raising competition, study aids turned drug addictions, and Barney's first pelvic exam. and a miracle.It's been downhill for Segal ever since Love Story, with the classicist turned pulp-master generally coming up with a good, commercial idea in each novel and them gumming it to death.
Doctors -heartbreaking, witty, inspiring, and utterly, grippingly real-is a vibrant portrait that culminates in a murder, a trial. Yet even their devotion to each other, even their medical gifts may not be enough to save the one life they treasure above all others. At the novel's heart is the unforgettable relationship of Barney Livingston and Laura Castellano, childhood friends who separately find unsettling celebrity and unsatisfying love-until their friendship ripens into passion. From the crucible of med school's merciless training through the demanding hours of internship and residency to the triumphs-and sometimes tragedies-beyond, Doctors brings to vivid life the men and women who seek to heal but who must first walk through fire.
His stunning novel reveals the making of doctors-what makes them tick, scheme, hurt. Writing with all the passion of Love Story and power of The Class, Erich Segal sweeps us into the lives of the Harvard Medical School's class of 1962.
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