Name: 赤ひげ診療譚
Rating: 4.26 (7 reviews)
ISBN: 9784101134062

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February 25, 2020

Ladies and gentlemen, if I may see my huge vagrancy, I will see if I can write this review, which I was supposed to write yesterday, but between I had many commitments on social media (especially Goodreads), I had to correct a manuscript sent by a Mexican friend very dear, and that my head ached because of the heat (one of my many weaknesses) I could not do it, although I left prepared the draft of this review.
First of all, I would like to apologise because my criticisms have no paragraphs whatsoever that if the drafts have. A much-loved friend of mine at Goodreads has made me see it, but I want to tell you, it's a matter of space, because if I separated my paragraphs, my criticisms wouldn't fit. It's true that they're very long, and they have a lot of straw, but it's my way of writing. So I apologize for it to Goodreads users.
I'm going to tell you about my future projects at Goodreads, and then he dedicated me to writing the review. Of course Goodreads users who are not interested can skip this part. The first thing is that with pauses I am reading thanks to my friend Galicius"The City of God" of St. Augustine https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... we are combining it, as long as my father allows me, since I am helping him write a doctoral thesis with"Sayonara" by James Michener https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... (you know that Japan is one of my favorite countries along with Poland, hence the predilection I feel for the publishing house Spanish Quaterni www.quaterni.es/ , which edits the best Asian literature, and also not what one expects. Instead of editing consecrated writers, he prefers to play it by editing high-quality books like this one I'll soon tell about) apart from this Michener wrote a wonderful fictional novel about the history of Poland, which I highly recommend, and every polacopific can't help but read https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7... I think, that Michener has inspired with this novel the books of Edward Rutherfurd https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... (although of course it is my particular opinion). Apart from this I will also continue with another theme that I am passionate about the apocalypse with two books. Canadian writer Michael D.'s first. O'Brien author of the bestseller "Father Elijah an Apocalypse" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... this subject has been discussed by my friend Professor Manuel Alfonseca, and I. No, we don't belong to any extreme or millennial sect, but it's always good to talk about what the future holds. It was the French writer Léon Bloy https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... who, when he wanted to be informed, did not read the newspapers but the book of the revelations of St. John. That's why I'm going to read "The City of God" with the book "Apocalypse: Warning, Hope, and Consolation" by Michael D. O'Brien edited in Homolegens https://homolegens.com/ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... If you are interested in parousistic literature I recommend the book of my friend Jorge Sáez Criado https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , which in my humble opinion is as good as that of Michael D. O'Brien "Apocalypse on the Day of the Lord" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3.... The same theme is the next book that I propose to read, and its reading is a commitment acquired with the administrator of the Facebook page of Juan Manuel de Prada following some comments that post. I refer to "The Papers of Benjamin Benavides" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... by the writer, and Argentine Jesuit Leonardo Castellani https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , who tried to promote with zeal and enthusiasm Juan Manuel de Prada https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , but he stumbled upon the so-called Pompier Catholicism, as he had not read it, but he had the book for a long time we thought that Don Leonardo Castellani deserves a tribute, and be discovered by the users of Goodreads. I am also very interested in reading this youth book of Irish and adventure monks, writer by The Prior of the Valley of the Fallen Don Santiago Cantera Montenegro "The Trips of Mailoc. The book of the hermit Ronan" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... They'd be wrong if they thought I was doing an act of politics. Nothing further from my intention, for what I intend to do is to rediscover a brilliant historian, and one of the best-formed heads in Europe. This book was recommended to me by a very active priest on social media and a big fan of the mystery program broadcast in Four Fourth Millennium presented by Iker Jímenez and Carmen Porter and it is to this man to whom I will dedicate the criticism of this book when I read it, and write my review in Goodreads. It is a subject that interests me Celtic Christianity, because during the late Middle Ages, as was mentioned in the discussion of the book "False Testimony" https://www.goodreads.com/topic/list_... rodney Stark there was a moment, which had to be the Celtic Church, which carried the burden of evangelization. This book of Father Quarry captures the best of the Celtic Church without falling into celtism or that idolatry of the Celtic Church, which is used by certain Protestant writers to attack the Catholic Church among them Stephen R. Lawhead https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... and Gillian Bradshaw https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... the truth is that I like these writers, but when they do something wrong it must be said. But you have been convinced by my speech on behalf of Father Santiago Cantera Montenegro, look at what you have written, and judge him for it https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... As the dearest friend of Don Juan Manuel de Prada Don Miguel Ayuso would say https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... adulenle. Having said that I begin with the criticism of this book, which as you can see has history. As you can imagine I am a regular consumer of Quaterni's books, because they edit it is a jewel, and a diamond in the rough. But I was sad, because in the last few years I couldn't put five stars on any of his books, and that was good, but this book has broken with several curses. On the one hand, I was freed from a series of anodyne readings, and other horrendous ones being the first book I rated with five stars in a long time, and on the other hand put Quaterni back in the crosshairs, and makes him compete again for the award of the best book of the year (it should be said that the entry in the select list of the best books I read, books that have been given five stars may opt for only, although there have been books with four stars that have received honorable mentions.) He briefly explained my story with this book, as some people know he more or less collaborated in the Department of Science History, and one of my roles is to get medical books. They may be novels, or scientific books of medicine, and what interested me and my boss. It was that Quaterni edited a book. My father would call it sacramental medicine, or sacrament medicine, which has an objective to equip the doctor with professional ethics, and that apart from a doctor he is a good man, who understands that the role of the doctor is not to become rich but to relieve and offer the best human treatment to the sick. This is very important in the times in which we live. Without being this novel "Bodies and Souls" by Maxence van der Meersch https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , or A.J. Cronin's "Citadel, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... or the novels of American writer Frank G. Slaughter https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...# if we think he embodies what a doctor should be. Because as St. Thomas More said, https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... "It must be said what must be done, but not what can be done" because not everything that can be done is ethically acceptable. Another subject that captivated us from this book was that it was Asian medicine. We have very little of this, despite attempts to get acquainted with Surata's Indian medicine, or Chinese medicine, which will surely have influenced Japanese medicine. It is also a point in favor of this book, which was adapted into cinema by Akira Kurosowa in the film Akahige, which was the last collaboration between Kurosawa and his hitherto fetish actor Toshiro Mifune. Kurosawa is one of the greats, and I'm just sorry that dYS doesn't make any more of his and other Japanese film directors. Let's hope the success of Parasites encouraged this trend to reverse. I felt very reflected with the protagonist the young Noboru Yasumoto, because I also believed myself as the protagonist of Bel Amithat when I left college I would have the world at my feet, and that they would hire me for anything. But that illusion faded. Also like Noboru Yasumoto I had a sentimental breakup, which did me a lot of damage. In this case the boy who thinks he's going to work for the Shogun as a doctor. He's had a breakup, since his fiancée Chigusa has fallen in love with someone else. To top it all off instead of working for the Shogun, they send him to a very fourth-row hospital, and where the poor are cared for. One of the most interesting things about this book is social criticism, which is done to the Shogunate regime by Kyojo Nide the elderly doctor, or the teacher. That is another of the strengths of history that is a story of teacher and disciple, and those are the stories, which I like to read. Perhaps sometimes Nide, who is called Barbarossa in honor of the famous emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, perhaps sometimes sinned Rousseaunian, and the dogmas of the illustration, which were able to come by the Japanese's contact with the Dutch. Because one of the charms of Shugoro Yamamoto's book is that we are told how Asian medicine was, and I think, since the 15th century it had been surpassed by Europe, but it has everything of value. In Nide we see many of the doctor's efforts to do justice, sometimes more than a doctor must act as a social reformer, and sometimes act like the Good Samaritan and care for others by practicing charity. Welcoming sick children, worrying about prostitutes, trying for example to improve the hygiene of the place. The conversation he has with Yamamoto about the unhygienic of tatami mats is very illustrative. This book is not a novel, but like some stories by G.K. Chesterton to give an example https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... are short stories, so that if you do not like one you can skip that story, although I do not, because all have their interest, and some medical cases are fascinating from murderous nymphomania, young people with platonic friendships, families who go to ruin by slander. That particular story reminded me of Agatha Christie's novel "The Works of Hercules" to the case of Lerma's hydra, because as you can see the hydra is the slander so it is so lethal, and so harmful. One chapter, which I liked was that of prostitutes, and how doctors sometimes organize gangs of thugs to sabotage sabotage the work of other doctors, and only Kyojo Nide's courage, leadership, and talents make him come before the most unlikely situations. Shugoro Yamamoto gets, that we empathize with patients of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, and that each even the psychopath Yumi has a life of his own. Also Kyojo Nide, which is more than what his appearance says a severe doctor. In reality, he is a man who seeks redemption for the evils he has committed. Genzo Tsugawa is not so good is very useful for us, to inform Yamamoto of the hospital, and of whom he works in the center, and its peculiarities. It is a mine of valuable information, which is very useful to the reader, and which he appreciates, even if he is later an inept doctor. We will be touched by Osugi's story, even though his destiny improved. Handayu Mori, and Kyojo Nide show us one thing, that the most unfriendly a priori characters are then the best. This really happens in life. The penultimate character has a very moving life, because he will give up something very valuable for continuing his vocation as a doctor. Like Shugoro Yamamoto who goes on to treat his master with disdain to admire him without reservation, and to realize that medicine is not a path to riches and honors, but a vocation dedicated to service. He may not be the most enigmatic character Nide is, but he's the one that evolves the most, and because he matures. It's a novel with great ethical dilemmas in which it becomes correct. Very few flaws the truth perhaps the difference between some stories, and others, and things that as a Catholic I cannot approve of like suicide, or abortions that are performed, but in the last story make the right decision. The unanticipated ending ceases to be touching, and beautiful. Finally, wish Quaterni would continue to publish books as good as these. I hope they edit something about Miyuki Miyabe (just to find out to me this author I already have a debt to Quaterni for life, perhaps this novel by Miyuki Miyabe could interest Quaterni https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9... . After my farewell to Miyuki Miyabe https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... with "Crossfire" www.quaterni.es/producto/fuego-cruzad... published by Quaterni I have two aspirations to get my friends edited by a Spanish publisher and read something new from Miyuki Miyabe. I can only congratulate Quaterni on this magnificent novel, and hope for his next great success. PD. My next reviews will be Linnea Hartsuyker's "The Half Drowned King" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... and Elizabeth Camden's "Dangerous Legacy" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... .

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Shūgorō Yamamoto, 山本周五郎

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