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A Comparison Of Bloodletting And Miraculous Cures

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Generally, life can be separated into two phases: the first being the “coming of age” where people transition into adulthood and realize that there is not as much good in the world as there first appeared to be. The second phase is the aftermath, where people either learn to cope with the cruelties of life or simply fail. Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, by Vincent Lam, follows a group of medical students as they train to become doctors and how they learn to deal with different social pressures that accompanies the profession. At the beginnings of the characters’ medical journeys, they are all ecstatic to get into medical school, each having their own reason, such as “good intentions” or to appease their parents (Lam 10). However, as the characters begin to ease into doctoral life, the …show more content…

While a majority of the characters eventually accept their circumstances, Fitzgerald is unable to cope with his reality because of his childish hold on an idealistic world. “‘[He] expect[s] to fulfill all [his] desires in this life’” (266); his mentality that life will eventually give what is expected over time, stops him from taking initiative and finding different ways to attain an ideal life. Through Fitzgerald’s detrimental journey from innocence to pragmatism, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures explores the negative repercussions of not acknowledging and accepting the harsh realities of life. At the beginning of the book, Ming describes Fitzgerald as “strategically unwise” and as a result, “pure” (11). He is naive and childish; Fitzgerald is self-centred because he is unable to accept

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