Cutting for Stone (Vintage)

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Cutting for Stone (Vintage)

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Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution.

Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.

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±1±: Best Buy Wonderful book on a rich topic. I wanted to write about my impressions on some incidents in the book which might not be obvious to non-physicians.

Shiva has many characteristics of autistic spectrum, his silence, his compulsions, his indifference to schoolwork, and his empathy for the fistula patients. In the last chapters, Hema says that she recognized early that he is the needier twin. Because of the autism, he doesn't recognize the meaning that the sexual contact has for his brother. So Marion spends years of his life resentful of a betrayal that was unintentional. "Mirror image" twinning is a real phenomenon, but here it also represents opposites in personality and work.

Thomas Stone has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder secondary to his mother's death. The scar on his chest (from the thoracotomy for treatment of the TB that he contracted from his mother) is the permanent manifestation of the physical and emotional wound. The amazing scene in which he watches his mother bleed to death from the ruptured aneurysm caused by the syphilis contracted from her philandering husband is the symbolism of how he is also wounded by her tragic marriage.

Consequently, Thomas Stone has nothing in his life other than surgery, and his patients benefit from his wounds/sacrifices. Which is pretty common in the work of medicine.

There is symbolism in Marion's lethal illness from sexually transmitted Hepatitis B. Then his life is saved by his father, who abandoned him to pursue surgery. That gift of life is only possible because he has an estranged but identical twin who is willing to risk his life.

The author's references to the gratitude that physicians and surgeons feel for the teaching that passes on "the art" is very beautiful. His references to the British and "classical" medical education system are very rich and interesting. Ghosh's humanity, wisdom, and charm are wonderful.

The reference to the Hipocratic Oath evokes a lot of imagery. There is much of the oath which is reflected in the themes of this book. "Cutting for stone" refers to what is forbidden and, by extension, what is imprudent and dangerous. on Sale!