The transition from young person aspiring to be a physician to young physician skilled in technique and confident in one's dealings with patients is slow and halting. The difficulty of this process and how medical students feel about their training, their doctor-teachers, and th…
In a novel that looks at the past of Dr. Fingal O'Reilly, Fingal enrolls at Dublin's Trinity College to study medicine, where he witnesses the plight of the city's poor, boxes and plays rugby, and romances a nurse named Kitty O'Hallorhan.
Patrick Taylor's devoted readers know Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly as a pugnacious general practitioner in the quaint Irish village of Ballybucklebo. Now Taylor turns back the clock to give us a portrait of the young Fingal and show us the pivotal events that shaped the man …
Set in a Dublin of slums and tenements and brutal poverty, the story follows Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly's medical training at Trinity College. The hours are long and the cases challenging and O'Reilly must find a way to harden himself to the misery all around him.
Fingal O'Reilly goes to Dublin to study medicine. Fingal and his fellow aspiring doctors face the arduous demands of Trinity College and Sir Patrick Duns Hospital. The hours are long and the cases challenging, but Fingal manages to find time to box, play rugby and to romance a f…
The sixth book in Taylor's bestselling series tells the story of Fingal Flaherty O'Reilly as he grows up poor in Dublin and heads off to medical school.
A Dublin student doctor: an Irish country novel
Patrick Taylor's devoted readers know Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly as a pugnacious general practitioner in the quaint Irish village of Ballybucklebo. Now Taylor turns back the clock to give us a portrait of the young Fingaland show us the pivotal events that shaped the man h…