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epitome of incomprehensibility
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This book by Arthur Hailey is about a smallish American hospital circa 1960 that's shifting towards more modern ways of operating (soda_speak). It's both well-written and gripping, but what's funny is how inaccurate the back cover blurb is - at least in the edition I have, a paperback from my parents' collection. The current Goodreads profile shows the front of it (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124921.The_Final_Diagnosis).
And when I say the blurb is inaccurate, I mean hardly ANYTHING listed there actually happens in the book...
A nurse faints? No, she doesn't. A nursing student FELT like she was going to faint at one point while watching a pathologist do pathology things, but she turns out to be one of the toughest characters in the books.
A hurried embrace in a supply closet, implied to be between hospital staff? And by "embrace" you mean sex, right?? O blurb writer: no couple in this book even holds *hands* in a hospital closet. (To be fair, there's a tangential story told by a side character about people fucking in a closet, but it's not a hospital closet.)
Et cetera. And then some medical terms thrown together willy-nilly, which seems a shame when the author ACTUALLY DID HIS RESEARCH.
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