Winston, about a man slipping into psychosis, and Dr.This is a doctor writing about doctors, and it works. Some stories were better than others, but overall Lam’s writing is measured, careful, self-assured, oddly creative and at times, risky. It’s not just that the author was an ER doctor himself, and is writing what he knows. Each story builds on the last while presenting new facts and a medical case (or several). That Lam writes about the wonderful world of medicine seems appropriate. And not the good kind of weird! So here’s the beauty of having no expectations – three stories into this collection, I was hooked.īloodletting follows four doctors (Ming, Fitzgerald, Chen, and Sri) from medical school prep, to acceptance, all the way to residency. I don’t often search out books of short stories, usually because when I do…they’re weird. I got really excited when I realized it’s twelve stand-alone but interconnected short stories. Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures won the prestigious Giller Prize (for Canadian fiction) in 2006, which means I was at least acquainted with the title of this book.
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