With his usual facility, Segal spins a highly readable story that addresses the gravest, most pressing issues facing doctors today. Seth Lazarus, another class member, faces murder charges for a mercy killing. If you liked The Class, what should you read next The Class Matters of Honor Class Reunion Independence Day Doctors The Last Convertible Peyton Place. A medical-school classmate, brilliant black surgeon Bennett Landsmann, encounters racism within and beyond the medical establishment.
Pediatrician Laura is harshly penalized by tyrannical superiors who resent her complaints about their conduct. Later, Barney, a Manhattan psychiatrist, witnesses the heartwrenching suffering of mental patients at Bellevue Hospital, including his tragically misdiagnosed former basketball coach.
When childhood friends Barney Livingston and Laura Castellano enter Harvard Medical School in 1958, they are soon physically and emotionally overwhelmed by mountains of demanding coursework, a classmate's suicide and the vivisection of clumsily anesthetized dogs. As Segal sees it, many physicians are ``wounded healers'' who know that ``to care is to crack'' in this brutally competitive, sometimes poorly self-policed profession. In his most skillfully written novel to date, Segal ( Love Story, The Class ) tackles a timeworn but engrossing theme: the grueling education of doctors, and the toll exacted by their careers.
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