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The Physician

The Cole Trilogy (Gordon) 1

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The Physician

By: Noah Gordon
Narrated by: Mark Meadows
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An orphan leaves Dark Ages London, taking a dangerous journey and posing as a Jew to study medicine in Persia, in "an adventurous and inspiring tale" (Library Journal).

A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift - an acute sensitivity to impending death - never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.

Arab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia. Christians are barred from Muslim schools, but claiming he is a Jew, he studies under the world's most renowned physician, Avicenna. How the woman who is his great love struggles against her only rival - medicine - makes a riveting modern classic.

The Physician is the first book in New York Times best-selling author Noah Gordon's Dr. Robert Cole trilogy, which continues with Shaman and concludes with Matters of Choice.

©1986 Lise Gordon, Michael Seay Gordon and The Jamie Gordon Trust (P)2024 Audible Ltd. Ancient Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Medical Sagas Medicine
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I really enjoyed this story. The author created interesting characters and gives them an exciting journey to follow as the reader.

excellent story

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Weak story arch; difficult to root for MC. He really didn’t face much to overcome and if it could “go his way”, it always did. Kinda boring.

Entertaining but missing something…

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Narrator does the best he could with a god awful book. Barely a paragraph went by without me cringing at the blatant inaccuracies. They are entirely too many to list but range from clothes from the Renaissance, Bible quotes in English from the King James 18th century, peasant women being literate and names being modern.

Zero Historical Authenticity

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