The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine by John D. Lantos, Carl Elliott

The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine

John D. Lantos, Carl Elliott

184 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

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Walker Percy brought to his novels the perspective of both a doctor and a patient. Trained as a doctor at Columbia University, he contracted tuberculosis during his internship as a pathologist at Bellevue Hospital and spent the next three years re...

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