Confessions of a Medical Student

<p><strong>A charming novel following the struggles a naive sentimental student striving to move beyond family self and place in the late 1960's.</strong></p><p></p><p><em>Confessions of a Medical Student</em> charts 20-year-old Ben Adler's tragic-comic journey from home to med-school and the world beyond. Callow and impressionable Ben leaves his over-anxious Russian-Jewish parents in their Toronto drugstore and Angie his girlfriend whom he plans to marry against his parents' wishes. In anatomy Ben dissects his cadaver 'Clive' with lab-mates.</p><p>As the first blush of med-school fades Ben learns of his father's life-threatening illness. Cash-poor Ben enlists in the Navy to earn room and board joins Lenny's Underground Railroad for draft-dodgers jeopardizing studies and provoking his ill father's scorn.</p><p>The novel chronicles the tumultuous years 1966-1971 through the eyes of a naive sentimental student striving to move beyond family self and place. Ben careens from mistake to mistake over four years yet at the novel's end he emerges with self-knowledge and a touch of worldly pain and wisdom.</p>