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In the bravura opening chapter of Alan Lightman's novel The Diagnosis, a nameless horror befalls Boston businessman Bill Chalmers in the hubbub of his morning commute. As he jostles his way aboard the train and makes cell-phone calls to check last-minute details on his morning meeting (for Bill is punctilious), a realization surfaces in his brain, "like a trapped bubble of air rising from the bottom of a deep pond." He has forgotten where he's going. All he can remember is his anxious urgency and his company's creed, "The maximum information in the minimum time." Acutely aware that he's got a 9:15 appointment, but recalling only the first six digits of his phone number, Bill helplessly gazes out the window. "Trees flew by like flailing arms.... Railroad tracks fluttered by like matchsticks. Trees, white and gray clapboard houses with paint peeling off, junkyards with stacks of flaccid tires." Lightman's Kafka pastiche is as pitch perfect as his verbal music: note the rhyming x sounds in stacks and flaccid (which is not pronounced "flassid").
Terrifyingly soon, Bill is mad, homeless, beaten, and experimented on by comically evil doctors. He recovers and reunites with his family, but inexorably, mysterious paralysis ensues. Doctors try to diagnose him. Coworkers offer empty condolences and plot to steal his fast-track job. His wife seeks consolation with a passionate virtual lover on the Internet, a professor she's never met in the flesh. His teenage son triumphantly hacks into AOL's Plato Online, and Bill's last days are counterpointed with the trial of Socrates and his troubled, rich inquisitor Anytus. Instead of the real story, we get a second shimmering Lightman fable. Anytus's strife with his rebel son, a Socrates supporter, parallels Bill's grief as his son is distanced from him by illness.
Though I felt glimmerings of understanding from time to time, I never did fully figure out exactly what the Socrates story and Bill's decline have to say about each other, nor what Bill's paralysis says about modern times. I implore a smarter reader to explain it to me in the customer comments below. But I can tell you that every character is resonant, and every sensory particular is exquisitely precise, as in Lightman's biggest hit, the Italo Calvino pastiche Einstein's Dreams. --Tim Appelo
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Alan Lightman's first novel,
Einstein's Dreams, was greeted with international praise. Salman Rushdie called it "at once intellectually provocative and touching and comic and so very beautifully written." Michiko Kakutani wrote in The New York Times that the novel creates "a magical, metaphysical realm . . . as in Calvino's work, the fantastical elements of the stories are grounded in precise, crystalline prose." With
The Diagnosis, Lightman gives us his most ambitious and penetrating novel yet.
While rushing to his office one warm summer morning, Bill Chalmers, a junior executive, realizes that he cannot remember where he is going or even who he is. All he remembers is the motto of his company: The maximum information in the minimum time.
When Bill's memory returns, "his head pounding, remembering too much," a strange numbness afflicts him, beginning as a tingling in his hands and gradually spreading over the rest of his body. As he attempts to find a diagnosis of his illness, he descends into a nightmare, enduring a blizzard of medical tests and specialists without conclusive results, the manic frenzy of his company, and a desperate wife who decides that he must be imagining his deteriorating condition.
By turns satiric, comic, and tragic,
The Diagnosis is a brilliant and disturbing examination of our modern obsession with speed, information, and money, and what this obsession has done to our minds and our spirits.
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The author of "Einstein's Dreams" offers the story of Bill Chalmers, an ordinary man who loses his memory and can only recall his company's motto. Worse still, when his memory returns, he descends into a Kafkaesque nightmare in which the more he discovers, the more he realizes what he has already lost.
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It wouldn't leave me alone.......2007-03-22
I will admit a few things up front. First, I have enjoyed all of Mr. Lightman's fiction. I think he is a master at writing lyrical prose. Secondly, I was prepared to love this book - I was waiting to savor every page. Thirdly, when I did read it the first time, I was disappointed. But, the book wouldn't leave me alone.
Months after reading it, and not truly enjoying it, I found it would slowly surface in my mind, when I was reading, or listening to music, or riding on a train. Characters, and phrases would slip into my mind without any perceivable reason. I decided to read it again. This book needs, and deserves, to be read more than once.
It is funny, and frightening. It is insightful, and sarcastic. I think that there are good reasons I did not enjoy it the first time through - primary among those being that I was too much like Bill Chalmers. I was clueless, and scared, and wanted someone to connect the dots for me.
I could give you some reasons and answers for this book. I could tell you why I think the various stories and characters relate to each other, and what they tell us about ourselves. But I don't want to - it would be cheating.
Bottom line, this book is pretty cheap... But it. Read it now, then put it back on your shelf, and try not to think about it. When it comes back to get you in your thoughts, read it again. I am glad this book wouldn't leave me alone.
Intriguing but unclear.......2007-01-09
This is no trifle of a beach read -- it is a book with accessible language and a fairly enjoyable plot. However, though it has been well reviewed by critics, it has also confounded them. The book is about a man who has his nose to the grindstone at work. He faces pressures both from competitive workmates and the fast pace of technology including cell phones, e-mails, texts, etc. While on his way to work on the subway one morning, he forgets who he is and where he is going. After a surrealistic journey of sorts, he regains his memory only to lose his neurological faculties. The medical system is no help either. Rather than give a diagnosis or offer any real help, the doctors follow their own agendas. They show very little regard for his true needs; they make him jump through the hoops of the medical system offering no human connection or plausible help. He becomes paralyzed and eventually finds his only connection with the outside world is tracing the shadow a leaf throws on the floor. His friends and family are unsupportive, with the exception of his son. His son is a computer geek, a champion of his father's quest for a diagnosis, and a child ignored by both his parents.
The reader is also shown the e-mails from an online philosophy course on Sokrates (sic) that his son takes. In this story, Sokrates is betrayed a jealous man who fears Sokrates is blaspheming the democratic ideas of the state by stirring up questioning of accepted principles. This man helps prosecute Sokrates leading to his death sentence. While Sokrates swallows his poison with grace, the betrayor's son tells his father that Sokrates has been drawing all over his prison cell, telling the story of the human soul. This man's son is disgusted by his father's disregard for the great philosopher -- and one gets the idea the man betrays Sokrates in great part out of jealousy (since his son has much more admiration for Sokrates than his own father).
The big question that has been stumping most people is why the Sokrates story line fills up so much of the book. My best guess is that Lightman may be trying to draw a connection about man's lust for power and his love/hate relationship with progress. How can we move forward if it means we might be left behind? Will the process of keeping up destroy us in the end? In the main story line, our protagonist is a weak man who allows himself to be crushed by the fast pace world around him, preferring to miserably try to move up the office food chain than to find peace. In the end, he allows himself to weaken to the point of being paralyzed, blind, and near death. In Sokrates' case, though he is not weak himself, others around him are threatened by his potential power over the masses and make sure he is crushed. The father /son relationships in both story lines are complex. However, the juxtaposition may be Lightman's offering of hope for the futility otherwise demonstrated in this book. The way to address the pains of progress experienced by us or those around us, we would best be served in nurturing our relationship with our parents. Social progression will not come easily and we will easily be crushed unless we understand the handing of the torch from one generation to the next. If either father truly listened to or understood his son in these stories that make up the book, a great philosopher would have lived a lengthier life, and our protagonist may have been able to find enough light in human connection to understand how to maneuver around the suffocating information highway.
There are some interesting allusions to Plato's Myth of the Cave. Both our undiagnosed protagonist and Sokrates are imprisoned, either by a neurologically void body or in a prison cell. They draw shadows of a leaf and shadows of the human soul. Our protagnoist holds on to his last true connection with the outside world -- nature. Sokrates expresses his connection to humanity by telling the story of its soul. I'm not sure if I can flesh out the whole Platonic Idea connection. Unfortunately, I'm not sure I want to work this hard.
I would recommend this book to those interested in philosophy and those who are interested in books with big themes such as power and the human soul. It is not recommended for those who like clean, resolved endings.
I found this book intriguing; it is probably an important book. It flows well and is fairly entertaining. Read it if you like a true mystery. I am mostly left scratching my head. It sort of reminds me of Cloud Atlas in that way.
Diagnosis:The Existence of a Disease or Condition.......2005-04-03
Dedicated in memory of Bob Z, an Amazon reviewer.
Bill Chalmers, a junior executive with a large firm in downtown Boston, jumps on the "T" at Alewife Station on his way to... Well, there you are, here he is on the MTA and can't remember where he is going and all he has memory of is the first 3 numbers of a telephone. Help......
Bill finds himself going through extreme testing at the hands of physicians who will tell him a little bit of this and a little bit of that. What they are trying to find out is "The Diagnosis", "the determination of the existence of a disease or condition. Diagnosis generally involves the evaluation of a patient's medical history, clinical symptoms and laboratory test results." Well, ok, the emergence of high technology and the multitude of tests that accompany any diagnosis. First, there was numbness and then the numbness turned suddenly to complete paralysis. What has happened? "I am not completely sure, what is going on here." says one of the dcotors, "we need more tests". Test after Test reveals, well, a little bit but not enough to put any REAL diagnosis together. But, there are always more tests, and the granddaddy of them all the PET Scan. Whoopee!
And what about Bill's life during all of these tests? What happens to his job? Well, it appears pretty obvious that Bill will never be able to return so there is a fast competition to see who will secure Bill's job! And, the wife, why she is involved in an internet romance with a professor she has never met. But it keeps her occupied and she needs a diversion. After all taking care of Bill is a lot of work. And, Alex, the son? Ales is busy emailing the various doctors involved in the case to try and figure out just what is going on with his dad. Friends, family, pop in from time to time and it becomes pretty obvious that Bill isn't going to be able to remain at home- why he is paralyzed and that kind of condition tends to wear you down and the family needs to move on. Another type of hospital would be recommended for Bill- the family would visit as would all the friends, and as soon as the doctors are finished all the tests and can come up with a diagnosis well, then everyone can move on.
In the midst of this novel, Bill's son, Alex, starts reading to him galleys of a book about Sokrates and Anytus. Father and son. And how does this Greek story interplay with the Alex and Bill real life mystery? Aha, the brilliance of the writer Alan Lightman and his sometimes comic and tragic sequences of life will introduce a semblance of an answer.
This novel was at once disturbing and fascinating. The emergence of high tech in medicine and the Diagnosis of a man and his disease. What hath we wrought?
Highly recommended. prisrob
Why read The Diagnosis?.......2005-01-09
You all know what The Diagnosis is about, so I'll keep myself from summarizing and cut right to the point: The Diagnosis, while (in my mind) certainly entertaining and involving enough to prompt the reader to finish, does not find its footing in being a good page-turner or thriller-style novel.
The reason it is important, then, is its overall message, which I believe most of us are aware of already. However, Lightman's writing style so uniquely conveys the sense of chaos and meaninglessness, the "spiritual poverty", that confronts our society that I would recommend it to anyone who considers themselves humanistic or "spiritual", as well as aspiring professionals. This book forces you to consider where you stand in your own life and re-think your priorities. As a student halfway through college, it only helped to harden my resolve to do everything in my power not to end up the "Bill Chalmers" type, idly pursuing the so-called American Dream, and to search for more than mere money and material comfort in my life.
I've noted on some of the other reviews posted here that a lot of my fellow readers didn't understand the point of the Socrates/Anytus interludes. While I agree that the life of Bill Chalmers somewhat paralleled the life of Anytus in terms of his relationship with his son, I think it is also crucial to realize the significance of the fact that Anytus was the person primarily responsible for the death of Socrates. Socrates, for those who don't know, was the "gadfly" of his city, and had the ability to prove to people that they had no real rational basis for their beliefs and values. He made people reconsider their priorities and examine themselves on a much deeper level, a talent which eventually made him a threat to his society. He had a real passion for people, it seems, which overrode all desires for fame, fortune, etc., and he did not fear death.
So then, what is the point of these interludes? I believe that the execution of Socrates by Anytus' efforts mirrors that of Bill Chalmers' true "self" by his daily life in a society with little regard for people as human beings. I think this is what Lightman was really getting at...perhaps he should have devoted more time to Socrates and his teachings instead of simply focusing on his death. I am reminded of Mel Gibson's treatment of Jesus in The Passion.
ugh.......2004-08-26
I listened to this book ( 10 Cds!) waiting for something to happen.... waiting, waiting, ( does this sound like the book) and was just totally disappointed in the book. It went no where after a very exciting beginning and left me totally cold. If you are thinking of reading it, don't.
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It's a massive hospital space station on the Galactic rim--384 levels, a staff of thousands--where human and alien medicine meet.
But Patient Hewlitt, new to Sector General, doesn't want to meet alien medicine--or alien doctors, or alien nurses, or aliens of any kind. Which is just too bad; he's an interesting case, and he'll have to get used to it.
In the meantime, it's always been an article of faith among Sector General's multispecies staff that infections can't pass from one alien race to another. But in this season of anomalies, it looks like they might have their first-ever interstellar virus on their hands, their tentacles, their cilla....
Combining intrigue, ingenious puzzles (and even more ingenious solutions), action, adventure and White's characteristic easy charm, Final Diagnosis is a science-fiction treat.
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Too much background.......2003-10-13
Maybe it's because I've read most of the other Sector General stories.. I felt that Final Diagnosis had way too much explanation in it. Most of the other books do explain the alien physiology classifications that White uses, which is fine, but this particular plot could have fit in a thimble after all the explanations had been cut.
This sci-fi book was a find which surprised and intrigued me.......1999-05-23
I have not read the rest of James White's Sector General series but I now eagerly anticipate reading them. The humor and mystery of the book were only equalled by White's talent for describing enthralling alien characters. He paints a picture of the future with a different slant than any I have read thus far, an uplifting look at human/life ironies told from a sympathetic point of view, like a Norman Rockwell doctor who routinely treats nitrogen-breathing slime creatures from a planet with five times our gravity!
I'm glad this wasn't the last book in the series after all.......1999-04-01
*Final Diagnosis* refers back to *Star Surgeon*, which pleased me because that the first Sector General book I ever read [in 1967 or 1968, when paperbacks were only 50 cents]. If you've read that earlier book you'll enjoy reading how things turned out, and you should enjoy the book even if you haven't. Although, as another reviewer mentioned, it's easy to figure out most of what's going on (once Hewlitt remembers his kitten's accident, the incident with Morredeth is inevitable, etc.), that doesn't matter much. Never mind the "mystery", the book is worth reading for the characters alone. I only wish, for new readers' sake, that series remained in print as long now as they did when I was a girl. The internet makes it easier to find out-of-print books than it used to be, but that's no substitute for being able to order all the earlier books from the publisher. Ann E. Nichols
White is still the best at this style scifi!.......1999-01-25
As a long time reader of White's Sector General novels i was definitly not disappointed with his newest. I really enjoyed Patient Hewlett's attempts to get over his xenophobia. No one writes aliens like White. You really want to meet these creatures by the end of his books. His plots are always wonderfully off kilter. It is good old fashioned science fiction in the best sense of the word. You can read them out of order but to get the full effect try to find the earlier books as well.
Great medical detetive story with a twist!.......1998-07-21
A different look at both medicine and culture, and how the two interact, with both interesting charaters and believable situations involing both medicine, patient's rights and how de-humanizing medicine can be "for our own good", and madding when doctors try to make our decisions for us, Petient Hewlitt must fight those who view him as a mential case looking for attention. This is a field seldom looked into in Science Fiction, where it is assumed the future will hold no illness, and everthing can be cured.
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Fatal Diagnosis
Echo Heron
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Tending Lives: Nurses on the Medical Front
ASIN: 0804119139
Release Date: 2000-09-05 |
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ELECTIVE SURGERY. SELECTIVE DEATH.
A cosmetic surgery patient complains of an inexplicable rash. . . . A pacemaker interferes with hospital equipment. . . . A man is fished out of San Francisco Bay, his body disfigured by sharks. Or by a human with a very sharp knife . . .
On Ward Eight of Ellis Hospital, nurse Adele Monsarrat uncovers a link between two cases of disfigured corpses--and she is certain that the same rogue doctor "operated" on both. But Adele would never guess that the crimes she is investigating reach halfway around the world--or that she has already been added to a growing list of victims. For in an age in which cosmetic surgery can perform wonders, someone has discovered the ultimate transformation: using the human body as the perfect disguise for terror. . . .
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not up to par.......2001-03-09
I've read and enjoyed Echo's previous books, but I found this one tedious and overly detailed. I never made it past page 60.
Never A Dull Moment.......2000-10-27
Americans who have had surgery overseas are returning to the U.S. and suffering complications. Some are turning up murdered. When nurse Adele Monsarrat gets wind of this trend, she begins to investigate and ends up right in the middle of things (as usual) and in danger herself. Heron manages to weave irresistible humor into even the most dire of circumstances. I love the antics of Nelson, the vegetarian Labrador Retriever. When he meets Helen, the deaf and blind cat, for the first time, it is absolutely hysterical. I have enjoyed several of Heron's other books and she just keeps getting better and better. A thoroughly engrossing and delightful read. The only question is, why isn't the publisher promoting Heron's books more vigorously? Her books belong on all the bestseller lists.
Adele Monsarrat Returns.......2000-10-19
Fatal Diagnosis by Echo Heron: Adele Monsarrat returns in "Fatal Diagnosis". As always, the author carefully develops the suspense and you will have no choice but to become riveted as the plot unfolds before you. I liked it and am looking forward to more in the series.
mystery review.......2000-10-13
a real thriller which makes you think that what is going to happen next????
Super book!.......2000-09-19
Anyone who enjoys reading medical mysteries, and especially those who've enjoyed the previous installments of the Adele Monsarrat series, will enjoy this book.
The characters, especially Adele, Tim and Cynthia, continue to develop in this page-turner!
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After her Aunt Teza’s test results turn out to be inconclusive, Dot Cooper resolves to raise money for a new mammogram machine, through the creation and auction of a magnificent, king-sized quilt to be sewn by the women of Jefferson City.
Dot’s efforts quickly draw the support of disparate members of the community, including newcomer Beth Donnelly, married to a local pastor, Elaine Giovanni, the stylish wife of a local surgeon; and an ailing Aunt Teza. But as the four different generations work the squares of the quilt, they are also confronted with ragged pieces of their own lives.
Though the women could not be more different on the surface, they hold in common quiet suffering triggered by painful circumstances: the death of children, the abandonment of husbands, the loneliness of depression. Yet their struggles will bring them closer together than they ever could have anticipated, and their lives will be dramatically changed, as together they experience the curative powers of The Healing Quilt.
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Obvious, badly plotted, and tired characters.......2006-07-24
This book was awful in so many ways. The tone was obnoxiously preachy; the characters and situations cliched. I think most 12 year olds could write characters that were more interesting and real. Worse that a TV sitcom, only without any laughs. The plotline could not have been more obvious. Most offensive is the young wife who solves major depression by just being honest and forgiving herself for her past "mistake". The simplistic solutions for all the problems brought up are insulting. This fiction is medically, emotionally, and spiritually unsound! I wish I had not wasted the time to read it.
the most moving and compelling novel ever written.......2003-11-30
I finished reading this book in 3 hours. It was the most moving and compelling novel I have ever read. While amazed at how strong this group of women was, they were each struggling with a battle of their own. This book shows you how you can lean on friends in your time of need, and they will always be there for you. It also shows how everyone deals with their own pains and struggles in their own way, but it doesn't mean they love you any less. This novel is a must read for everyone.
A Wonderful Book for Everyone!.......2003-04-08
This book was awesome. The women were working together for cancer awareness and research and had to come to terms with things in their past. Many important themes were hit on and it's a book I would recomment to anyone and doubly to someone who has faced cancer or post-abortion syndrome. The realities of living with cancer and the heartache of the terrors of abortion were shown in this wonderful novel. The women's faith in God helped them to face their problems and be able to move on with their lives.
MAKES YOU THINK.......2002-10-19
Ever since meeting Lauraine Snelling at a writers conference a few years ago, I look forward to an opportunity to read one of her books. I just finished The Healing Quilt. It's a powerful story. My daughter is 18, and the possibility of someone so young going through breast cancer had never occured to me.
Perhaps because of my daughter's age, I strongly identified with Kit's struggle with the loss of her daughter. The synergy of the quilting group brings each woman through her loss to healing. I might not make the same decisions--but the growth reflects the characters we come to know in the book. It made me long for a simpler lifestyle, where I could volunteer for community events and spend time with friends.
Read The Healing Quilt. You will meet yourself in one or more of the women.
Soft Comforts.......2002-09-23
This gentle, amused, and sympathetic book is rather like a warm quilt on a chilly night. The situations are compelling, though not all the characters succeed; the hispanic maid's English is annoying to anyone who knows a lot of recent hispanic immigrants! But she ties the story together into a very readable book, in which the religious elements are integral and attractive -- no easy task! It would be enjoyed most by a devout Protestant reader, but it's pleasant for anyone.
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Dissecting the Doctors.......2000-05-26
"Scalpel...clamp...uh oh, we need some suction...suction, come on ... clear!" No this isn't ER, nor Chicago Hope, it's Arthur Hailey's riveting hospital suspense drama, "Final Diagnosis". This eye-gluing, can't-put-down novel is a novel like no other. If you like hospital shows like ER and Chicago Hope, then you're gonna like this novel as well, maybe even better. Hailey takes his audience behind the curtains in the hospitals that we norms leave all our hopes and health in, and brings us the true environment that surrounds our residential medicine men/women, from love, pride, money, ethics, and most importantly of all politics. This book mainly surrounds an aging pathologist, Dr. Joe Pearson,who's years of service at the Three Rivers Hospital are coming to an end. Colleagues nd adversaries feel that he may be a hazard to his patient's health. The main struggle lies within Joe to realize that he is through. Love seems to always find it's way into everything. In this novel love hits two surgeons who are "just friends" and a young nurse and a young pathologist. Overall this book is one everyone can enjoy, whether you read for the love the hospital drama or for the main issue your sure to enjoy.
Interesting, gripping, definitely worth reading.......2000-01-22
In this book, Aurthur Hailey takes his readers behind the scenes in a hospital. He designs his characters carefully so that we will get to know them well and then learn to care about what happens to them next. The story itself is thrilling and flows well. In addition, the many things you'll learn about a hospital are fascinating and extremely interesting. This book won't take you long to read, and as soon as you start reading, you'll find you won't want to stop until you finish. As for all the other things in your life - they'll have to wait.
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Computerized Medical Diagnosis: A Novel Solution to an Old Problem
Carlos, Feder
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In this book an internist with 50 years of medical practice, describes a novel computerized diagnostic algorithm. This algorithm can diagnose diseases that afflict an actual patient, as opposed to existing programs that are useful only for diagnostic training purposes. Emulating human reasoning, it accurately solves complex medical diagnostic problems. The primary purpose of this interdisciplinary book is to introduce the mentioned algorithm. It also is useful as a reference text because it explains in common language-medical terminology and diagnostic principles to computer scientists; and probability, logic, and heuristic concepts to physicians.
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Diagnosis and Detection: The Medical Iconography of Sherlock Holmes
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