The physician noah gordon review7/8/2023 ![]() How the woman who is his great love struggles against her only rival-medicine-makes a riveting modern classic. Christians are barred from Muslim schools, but claiming he is a Jew, he studies under the worlds most renowned physician, Avicenna. Arab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia. But as he matures, his strange gift-an acute sensitivity to impending death-never leaves him, and he yearns to be a healer. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole bes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Book Synopsis An orphan leaves Dark Ages London to study medicine in Persia in this rich and vivid historical novel from a New York Times-bestselling author (The New York Times). ![]() ![]() About the Book Originally published: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986. ![]()
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