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A medical-school classmate, brilliant black surgeon Bennett Landsmann, encounters racism within and beyond the medical establishment.

Pediatrician Laura is harshly penalized by tyrannical superiors who resent her complaints about their conduct. Later, Barney, a Manhattan psychiatrist, witnesses the heartwrenching suffering of mental patients at Bellevue Hospital, including his tragically misdiagnosed former basketball coach. When childhood friends Barney Livingston and Laura Castellano enter Harvard Medical School in 1958, they are soon physically and emotionally overwhelmed by mountains of demanding coursework, a classmate's suicide and the vivisection of clumsily anesthetized dogs. As Segal sees it, many physicians are ``wounded healers'' who know that ``to care is to crack'' in this brutally competitive, sometimes poorly self-policed profession. He died of a heart attack on Januat the age of 72.In his most skillfully written novel to date, Segal ( Love Story, The Class ) tackles a timeworn but engrossing theme: the grueling education of doctors, and the toll exacted by their careers. His other novels include Oliver's Story, The Class, and Doctors. He received a Golden Globe Award and an Oscar nomination for his screenplay. His most famous novel was Love Story, written in 1970. Segal collaborated on the 1958 Harvard Hasty Pudding Club production and wrote several Hollywood screenplays, including the 1968 animated Beatles film, Yellow Submarine and A Change of Seasons.

He achieved international acclaim for his verse translations of Roman playwright Plautus and delivered papers before the American Philological Association and the American Comparative Literature Association. He was also a visiting professor in classics at Princeton University and the University of Munich. Segal began a teaching career at Harvard University before moving to Yale University in 1964. He graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. He was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 16, 1937. Erich Segal was a writer, educator, and screenwriter.