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When Doctors Marry
"As doctors they worked side by side, but as man and wife there was a wall between them--until..."
When Dr. Cannon Penrod read about the appointment of Dr. Corliss Walker as resident surgeon to the Memorial Hospital staff--the first woman ever to receive such an appointment--he could not believe that a woman exposed to so much pain and suffering could have feelings of her own--womanly feelings.
A freak accident was to bring the two doctors together, and Dr. Penrod would learn that Dr. Corliss Walker was truly a woman--a woman almost too pretty to be a doctor, a woman who wanted to love a man, who wanted to have her own baby, even to know her own sorrow and hurt for someone she loved and who belonged to her. Dr. Walker was a woman who wanted to love a man, but not just any man.
When Dr. Cannon Penrod read about the appointment of Dr. Corliss Walker as resident surgeon to the Memorial Hospital staff--the first woman ever to receive such an appointment--he could not believe that a woman exposed to so much pain and suffering could have feelings of her own--womanly feelings.
A freak accident was to bring the two doctors together, and Dr. Penrod would learn that Dr. Corliss Walker was truly a woman--a woman almost too pretty to be a doctor, a woman who wanted to love a man, who wanted to have her own baby, even to know her own sorrow and hurt for someone she loved and who belonged to her. Dr. Walker was a woman who wanted to love a man, but not just any man.
287 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1960
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About the author
Elizabeth Seifert
123 books2 followersMs. Seifert wrote more than 80 novels during her lifetime.
From an early age she wanted to study medicine but was thwarted by poor health and family disapproval. She did manage to study physiology and anatomy and after graduating from Washington University, she became a clinical secretary in a hospital. During the years that followed, she grew to understand something of the lives, emotions and problems of the people that made up the medical profession. With this knowledge, she began to write.
Sometimes published in German and Spanish as Elisabeth Seifert.
From an early age she wanted to study medicine but was thwarted by poor health and family disapproval. She did manage to study physiology and anatomy and after graduating from Washington University, she became a clinical secretary in a hospital. During the years that followed, she grew to understand something of the lives, emotions and problems of the people that made up the medical profession. With this knowledge, she began to write.
Sometimes published in German and Spanish as Elisabeth Seifert.
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September 24, 2019
Ah Liz...
Seifert is an interesting author. She was an aspiring doctor and med student pushed out of her dreams by sexism, who lived out countless alternate lives through her writing. Many of her novels are fun forays into one woman's literary wish fulfillment.
Not this one. It's a mess that reads as if Seifert tasked a reluctant man to write about the female surgical resident who gets in an accident and falls for the sexist workaholic who saved her life. Absolutely none of the characters feel real, especially her doctor heroine who is passive and flight in every way, but somehow scored a degree and bias-bending respect. Time jumps and motivations flip so many times that the read becomes tedious rather than escapist.
But she gets points for her douchey hero, Dr. Cannon Penrod, the most ridiculous character name I've read in years.
Seifert is an interesting author. She was an aspiring doctor and med student pushed out of her dreams by sexism, who lived out countless alternate lives through her writing. Many of her novels are fun forays into one woman's literary wish fulfillment.
Not this one. It's a mess that reads as if Seifert tasked a reluctant man to write about the female surgical resident who gets in an accident and falls for the sexist workaholic who saved her life. Absolutely none of the characters feel real, especially her doctor heroine who is passive and flight in every way, but somehow scored a degree and bias-bending respect. Time jumps and motivations flip so many times that the read becomes tedious rather than escapist.
But she gets points for her douchey hero, Dr. Cannon Penrod, the most ridiculous character name I've read in years.
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