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A BookPage Best Book of 2014 "[Terrence Holt] is Melville Poe Borges but with a heart far more capacious." - Junot Daz Out of the crucible of medical training, award-winning writer Terrence Holt shapes this stunning account of residency, the years-long ordeal in which doctors are made. "Amid all the mess and squalor of the hospital, with its blind random unraveling of lives," Internal Medicine finds the compassion from which doctors discover the strength to care. Holt's debut collection of short stories, In the Valley of the Kings, was praised by the New York Times Book Review as one of "those works of genius" that "will endure for as long as our hurt kind remains to require their truth." Now he returns with Internal Medicine - a work based on his own experiences as a physician - offering an insider's access to the long night of the hospital, where the intricacies of medical technology confront the mysteries of the human spirit.