This is a novel about what they do to each other and to their patients. And what their patients do to them. The heroes are young doctors, fresh out of medical school and taking the blame for disease and random disaster.William Ryan. Possessor of a brand new M.D. and defender of some old and precious illusions. Handsome and charming, a brilliant academic and athlete. Soon after arriving at The Tower, New York's most prestigious teaching hospital, Ryan embarks on three separate emotional relationships with a beautiful Eurasian nurse, a young patient dying of Hodgkin's, and Diana Hayes, an ambitious and calculating female cardiologist.While juggling his personal life, he also gets on the bad side of the bureaucratic arm of the hospital, which threatens to end his career before it's even begun.
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