Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures

"Medical students have it tough. Imagine dissecting your first corpse - and having to confess you've mislaid the head. And how do you convince a delusional man that his beautiful neighbour is not, in fact, colluding with him to kill her husband so they can be together? Or explain to the widow of a heart-attack patient that the barbershop her husband died in specialised in 'back-room services' not strictly on the price list? And that's not to mention having, you know, a life - with all the attendant hells of the opposite sex, metaphysical turmoil and making the rent. In this critically acclaimed and scalpel-sharp collection of interwoven tales, Vincent Lam introduces us to Ming, Fitz, Sri and Chen, and shows us that underneath their white coats, doctors and interns are human - and as fallible and unpredictable as the rest of us ..."--Cover.