The Good Doctor
Set in post-apartheid South Africa, The Good Doctor follows Frank Eloff, a doctor in a forgotten and underfunded rural hospital. When an idealistic young doctor named Laurence Waters joins the staff and spearheads a new healthcare outreach project for poor villages, Frank's disillusionment and frustration reach a boiling point.
Quote:
"For the first time I was treating people who were fighting in a war. I saw things there I hadn't seen before. Wounds made by grenades and bullets and landmines; the deliberate damage that people willfully inflict on each other. The overriding impression that I retain is of the vividness of bleeding meat, like some kind of bright fruit blooming against the dun, dusty veld."
Author:
Damon Galgut is the author of A Sinless Season, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs,The Good Doctor,The Quarry, and In a Strange Room. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
Published: 2003
Length: 215 pages
Set in: South Africa