Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

This is a novel set in a clinic outside of Addis Ababa. Really fun to read, and medically centered. I thought the novel was a really great way for the author to express many things that are obviously important to him.

Foreign medical students in the US, especially for their residencies, doing jobs that no US educated doctors will do. 

The physical examination as the centering point for diagnosis. 

The relationship of culture to the patient doctor relationship. 

How life and work can be in conflict. Some people can be really good at their life's work. Some people can be really good at relationships with other people. And a few very rare cases where somebody is good at both.

Definitely made surgery sound attractive...