Taylor\'s devoted readers know Doctor Fingal Flahertie O\'Reilly as a pugnacious general practitioner in a quaint Irish village.
His teachers warn Fingal not to become too attached to his patients, but can he truly harden himself to the suffering he sees all around him--or can he find a way to care for his patients without breaking his heart? A Dublin Student Doctor is a moving, deeply human story that will touch longtime fans as well as readers who are meeting Doctor Fingal O\'Reilly for the very first time..
Dublin is a city of slums and tenements, where brutal poverty breeds diseases that the limited medical knowledge of the time is often ill-equipped to handle.
The hours are long and the cases challenging, but Fingal manages to find time to box and play rugby--and to romance a fetching, gray-eyed nurse named Kitty O\'Hallorhan.
Fingal and his fellow aspiring doctors face the arduous demands of Trinity College and Sir Patrick Dun\'s Hospital.
In the 1930s, fresh from a stint in the Royal Navy Reserve, and against the wishes of his disapproving father, Fingal O\'Reilly goes to Dublin to study medicine.
Now, in A Dublin Student Doctor, Taylor turns back the clock to give us a portrait of the young Fingal--and show us the pivotal events that shaped the man he would become.
Devoted readers of Patrick Taylor\'s Irish Country novels 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 a portrait of the young FingalNand shows the pivotal events that shaped the man he would become.
Taylor\'s devoted readers know Doctor Fingal Flahertie O\'Reilly as a pugnacious general practitioner in a quaint Irish village
