Morton Thompson's great novel The Cry and the Covenant penetrates hospital walls with a vividness in telling the dramatic story of a physician with the courage to keep his oath to medicine ecen at the cost of his career, it guides you deep into the w...
Powerful novel about a young doctor who lives for medicine and sacrifices everything for his career. Describes his years at medical school, his practice in a small town and his devoted self-sacrificing wife who works to make their marriage a success....
Historical fiction. Based on the life of Ignaz Semmelweis, an Austrian-Hungarian physician known for his research into puerperal fever and his advances in medical hygiene. In the novel he struggles to prove to his fellow doctors that if they would on...