It’s difficult to tell how close to the truth the reader is meant to believe the Passages from the diary of a late physician are — I suspect either not very or only close enough to titillate. Samuel Warren is the physician in question and the two volumes of his Passages are as full of drama as anything Dickens or Trollope plotted out: the struggle of early education, titled patients, mysterious requests, it’s all here!
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