In 1991, Abraham Verghese moved west, bringing his wife and two young sons to the border town of El Paso, Texas. There he crossed paths with David Smith, a medical student who came to America from Australia on a tennis scholarship and played briefly on the pro tour before deciding to become a doctor. Recognizing some spark of commonality - perhaps just that of two strangers on the very edge of America - Verghese cajoled him into playing tennis again.On the wards, Verghese is teacher and mentor as he guides David through difficult and sometimes colorful clinical problems seen in a county hospital. He teaches him how to read the signs from the human body, to use his hands to percuss, and to use his mind to listen. On the tennis court, their roles are reversed: The clinician becomes the student - almost. David helps Verghese hone his strokes and sharpen his game. But Verghese, a compulsive collector since childhood of tennis lore and trivia, a compiler of notebooks on tennis heroes, ephem...
Wrong Place Wrong Time : Can you stop a murder after it's already happened? THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK (9780241520949)
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