Convention, M. D.

by Frank G. Slaughter

Barcelona. 18 cm. 473 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Biblioteca de Frank G. Slaugther', numero coleccion(8). Traducción de Domingo Manfredi Cano. Traducción Convention MD. Biblioteca de Frank G. Slaughter. numero coleccion( 8). Los jet de Plaza & Janés. 371/8 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. 8401472733

Genres: Thriller

352 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1972

About the author

Frank Gill Slaughter , pen-name Frank G. Slaughter, pseudonym C.V. Terry, was an American novelist and physician whose books sold more than 60 million copies. His novels drew on his own experience as a doctor and his interest in history and the Bible. Through his novels, he often introduced readers to new findings in medical research and new medical technologies.

Slaughter was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Stephen Lucious Slaughter and Sarah "Sallie" Nicholson Gill. When he was about five years old, his family moved to a farm near Berea, North Carolina, which is west of Oxford, North Carolina. He earned a bachelor's degree from Trinity College (now Duke University) at 17 and went to medical school at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He began writing fiction in 1935 while a physician at Riverside Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida.

Books by Slaughter include The Purple Quest, Surgeon, U.S.A., Epidemic! , Tomorrow's Miracle and The Scarlet Cord. Slaughter died May 17, 2001 in Jacksonville, Florida.

Reviews

[James Digate · Rating 4 out of 5]

This story was very good and very well written, if not a little long. Well worth reading.

[Bob Box · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read in 1973. Novel of doctors and medicine.

[Bob Box · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read in 1973. Don't remember.

[Robin Wheeler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely stunning if you enjoy learning about the early days of heart and vascular surgery!!!!!!