by Abraham Verghese
The Tennis Partner describes the autobiographical story of the friendship between Verghese and one of his medical students in El Paso, Texas, in the early 1990s. When David Smith met Dr. Verghese, he was a medical student trying to finish his degree and obtaining an internship, but before he start...
Yummy! If you like memoir, doctor stuff, tennis, addiction and relationships.
I thought this was fantastic. It's fascinating how physician addiction is handled. I thought that it was good to have people that others sometimes forget are human shown in a humanistic light. I laughed, cried, yelled and couldn't hold back my disappointment at the outcome of this story. But thr...