![]() ![]() ![]() The Physician is the first book in New York Times–bestselling author Noah Gordon’s Dr. 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 world’s most renowned physician, Avicenna. But as he matures, his strange gift-an acute sensitivity to impending death-never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.Īrab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia. ![]() Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. An orphan leaves Dark Ages London, taking a dangerous journey and posing as a Jew to study medicine in Persia, in “an adventurous and inspiring tale” ( Library Journal).Ī child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. ![]()
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