Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures - Vincent Lam

This collection of 12 short stories follows a few interconnected main characters from Medical School through to (for some of them) death. An inside view of the medical profession (this book was written by a doctor), the stories are detailed (necessitating a glossary of medical terms in the back) and believable, while exploring profound relationships between the characters. Lam expresses the sacrifices, risks, and realities of being a doctor without being hoity-toity or preachy. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, although I might have preferred a novel to a collection of short stories, so Lam could further develop a plot with these intense characters. Won the Giller Prize in 2006.