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Cheap? Tawdry? Exploitive?
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BOOK WORLD
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4 / 1990 |
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Curt Schleir
Curt Schleier is a free-lance book critic and author of two
books for young readers. |
M.D.
One Doctor's Adventures Among the Famous and the Infamous
From the Jungles of Panama to a Park Avenue Practice
B.H. Kean, M.D., with Tracy Dahlby
New York: Ballantine Books, 1990
480 pp., $19.95
According to the publicity material that accompanies M.D., author B.H. Kean "is a witty, charming practitioner, a medical detective whose specialty, tropical medicine, attracted to his office the rich, famous and infamous, who came home form their travels with more than they'd bargained for."
That might lead some to think M.D. is a cheap, tawdry, exploitive attempt by a vain physician to cash in on his patients' fame. So let's set the record straight: M.D. costs $19.95.
It definitely isn't cheap. As for tawdry and exploitive, well, you be the judge. Here's what he says about his patients:
"Once you've got them in an examining gown with a tongue depressor down their throat, they are usually ready to surrender stories that give new meaning to the phrase 'human condition.'"
He never explains how his patients manage to say anything with a piece of wood threatening their esophagus, but here is some of the stuff they apparently managed to get
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