Patrick Taylor - An Irish Country Doctor (Irish Country, Book 1)
Patrick Taylor - An Irish Country Doctor (Irish Country, Book 1)
Publisher: Fo.ge B..ks | ISBN: 0765319950 | 2007 | EPUB/MOBI | 356 pages | 2 MB/640 KB
A straitlaced novice doctor gets initiated into the unorthodox world of a crafty rural sawbones in Taylor's American debut. Barry Laverty is fresh out of school and uncertain about what type of medicine he should practice when he answers an ad for a physician's assistant in Ballybucklebo, a small Northern Ireland town populated, it seems, entirely by eccentrics. Laverty is initially taken aback by his new boss, Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly, whom he meets as O'Reilly is literally throwing a patient out of his office. Laverty spends most of the novel swaying between understanding O'Reilly's methods and second-guessing the boxer turned doctor who dishes out plenty of placebos and isn't above telling a white lie or a crude joke to worried patients.