Doctors - by Erich Segal (Paperback)

About the Book

Segal's most successful novel since Love Story returns to Harvard to tell the powerful and moving story of the making of doctors. From the merciless training through the demanding hours of internship and residency, Doctors brings to life the people who seek to heal.#Bantam.

Book Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 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. His stunning novel reveals the making of doctors--what makes them tick, scheme, hurt . . . and love.

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.

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.

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. Doctors--heartbreaking, witty, inspiring, and utterly, grippingly real--is a vibrant portrait that culminates in a murder, a trial . . . and a miracle.

Review Quotes

"A superior story . . . A moving and compelling novel of doctors and their fears--how they confront them or are confounded by them."--UPI.

"Segal's best work to date."--New York Post

About the Author

Erich Segal (1937-2010) began his writing career with the phenomenally successful Love Story. He wrote eight other novels, including The Class, which was an international bestseller and won literary prizes in France and Italy. Doctors reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Segal's academic focus included Green and Latin literature--subjects he taught at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Oxford.