A Dublin Student Doctor: An Irish Country Novel (Irish Country Books Book 6)

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In the meantime, Patrick Taylor began using his research works in his literary novels extensively and received immense success in his efforts. The list of lifetime achievement awards won by author Patrick includes an Award of Excellence in the field of Reproductive Medicine of the Andrology and Fertility Society of Canada. Throughout his career, Patrick has contributed with more than academic papers and a total of 6 textbooks.

He has even served as the chief editor of the Canadian Gynaecology and Obstetrics Journal. Apart from all these, Patrick has also written a few columns on medical humor in different newspapers. In addition to that, he has served as a book reviewer for one of the medical humor journals.

As far as the literary career of author Patrick is concerned, he has been able to publish over a dozen written works of his creative writing, all of which have been set in Northern Ireland. He has also published a collection of his humor columns, which he shared with TF Baskett. Patrick began his writing career in the year when he wrote and published a collection of short stories.

The first novel written by him was published in the year and since then, he has been contributing with creative writing works each and every year. As of today, Patrick is enjoying is retired life after years of hard work in the research field of medicine and utilizes most of his free time in writing novels. This series consists of a total of 11 books published between the years and All the novels of the series feature the main character named Barry Laverty as a young doctor living in Northern Ireland. In the beginning of the series, the author has depicted how Barry Laverty faces a lot of difficulties while practicing as a new assistant in a small rural village.

It was released by the Forge Books publishing house in the year The plot of this novel is set in Ireland and revolves around the lives of the main characters Dr. In the opening sequence of the plot of the novel, Barry Laverty is introduced as recently obtaining his M. Degree and setting out to find an employment opportunity in the village of Ballybucklebo. He finds it very difficult to locate the village on the map and resides in the emerald hills of Northern Ireland. He appears to be a proud owner of his new medical degree and a little bit of other worldly possessions. When he sees an employment opportunity as an assistant, he quickly jumps onto it in order to secure begin his medicine practice in the small rural area.

Finally, he gets the chance to meet Dr. Slowly and steadily, Barry comes to know a lot of things about the old physician and very well understands his motto of not letting the patients have an upper hand during their treatment. Initially, Barry seemed to be a little bit confused and was unable to decide whether Dr. Finally, Barry becomes aware of all the endearing and colorful residents of the village with the help of Dr. The village of Ballybucklebo makes Barry realize that there are still a lot of things that he has to learn about in his life. Overall, the novel proved to be an engrossing and charming story to captivate the readers.

It was published by the Forge Books publishing house and continued to depict the life of Dr. Barry Laverty in the Ballybucklebo village. In the opening sequence of the plot of the novel, Barry begins to feel the village as his home, while he continues to work as an assistant of Dr. However, his intentions of establishing himself get endangered due to a sudden death of one of his patients. Barry loses his reputation in the village and faces the danger of a lawsuit filed against him by the grieving widow. He waits for the postmortem report anxiously and at the same time, tries to regain the trust of the villagers.

Soon, he comes across a number of cases of the people of the village, some of which are not medical in nature. How refreshing to get this chance to look back into his past, to the early s when, against the wishes of his academic father, he paid his way through Dublin's Trinity Medical School after serving in the Royal Navy. The book captures O'Reilly's years of clinical instruction so well and underscores how primitive medicine at the time was. Fingal and his fellow students faced diseases like tuberculosis, cancer, cirrhosis and heart failure with the most basic of treatments that often failed due to limited understanding of the disease pathophysiology and the even more limited availability of successful treatments, including the most basic of antibiotics that we sadly overuse today!

Complicating the situation is the condition of the city in which they practice. Still reeling from the Irish Revolution, Dublin is made up largely of impoverished neighborhoods where disease runs rampant because of the poor sanitation and the inability of its tenants to improve their lot in life. The courses are grueling and aimed at hardening the students against the disease and death they will certainly encounter, but Fingal finds a way to distance himself while still caring for his patients, a lesson that becomes startlingly important when tragedy strikes his own family.

Through it all, he finds time to play rugby and court a beautiful young nurse, but Fingal must ultimately choose what is most important to him and sacrifice other things in life to make his dream a reality. Each of Taylor's Irish Country books has touched my heart and this is no exception. I really enjoyed seeing Fingal as a young man and learning about the experiences that shaped him into the man we know now. I was delighted to realize how similar he was as a young doctor to Barry, his assistant in Ballybucklebo. I also liked learning about O'Reilly's early courtship of Kitty O'Hallorhan, for it gives real body to their current relationship and makes the reader realize how rich a history they share.

Some reviewers have commented on the "excess" of medical terminology, but a book about a medical student without these passages would certainly be an incomplete portrait. Too, Taylor does a very good job of explaining the medical terms he uses with layman's language, making even the most obscure words clear. I value the book most for making me grateful for the advances in medicine that have been made since Fingal's days in school. How awful it must have been to feel unable to treat even the simplest infections - to watch patients die when you knew what was ailing them but just couldn't do anything about it.

How blessed we are to live in an age of antibiotics, MRIs, robotic surgery and so much more.

A Dublin Student Doctor

I was also touched by Fingal's interactions with his patients and the respect and care that he showed them. That is what makes medicine so rewarding and it makes me, as a pathologist, regret just a tiny little bit that I don't have the chance to have that same interaction with people daily. Though my work is rewarding, the life of a country doctor, with its close ties to patients and their families, is certainly made to look even more so by this book.

All in all, I can't say enough in praise of the book and I highly recommend it, especially to those in the medical profession or those considering a career in healthcare! It will certainly bolster your resolve! I was a bit sceptical about purchasing this book. I loved this one. Fingal O'Reilly comes across as a dedicated doctor from the first time he steps onto the wards. It shows how he met and became involved with Kitty O"Halleron.

In order to make the transition, the book begins with one of Fingal's patients having a motorbike accident and being taken to the hospital. Fingel and Kitty accompany the patient. During the night of waiting for results for his patient, and the surgery outcome, Fingal relives various moments in his early medical student days in Dublin. The transitions are seamless and effortlessly moves from past to present. The shining moment is when Fingal who has argued with his father about becoming a doctor makes peace with his father.

His father is a no nonsense type of man who demands to be called Father. He wanted Fingal to become a scientist as he was, but Fingal said he had to become a doctor.


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In order to finance his way to medical school, he enlisted in the Royal Nacy. His father is a Father with a capital "F". When his father becomes ill, the father admits that he is proud of Fingal for sticking to his guns so to speak and becoming a doctor. What I also found fascinating was the old time medical techniques that were common in the 's.

This is a book worth owning so it can be reread again and again. I have read all of Taylor's books. I really liked learning more about O'Reilly and why he acts the way he does with others in his town of Ballybucklebo. Taylor added some interesting medical details from the 30's into the story and discussed his close friendship with 3 other doctors, 2 of who appear in other stories. He also discusses his beginning relationship with Kitty.

I personally feel this is probably his best written story of the series. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who has read at least the first book in this series. For anyone who has read a Patrick Taylor book, this should not disappoint. I have read all of his previous works and loved all of them. I've become very fond of Irish Fiction and this definitely rates up there and in fact, probably replaces my love of Maeve Binchy novels although those are darn good as well. We finally get a detailed glimpse into the life of Doctor Fingal O'Reilly as a medical student and what his home life was all about.

I also learned that he wasted all together too much time messing up his relationship with Kitty men! Fortunately, as we all know, he finally gets that part of his life right. It is thru this journey into his life as a medical student that one comes to fully appreciate the man he has become and one whom I think a lot of women would love to meet in a cozy little Irish Pub.

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