Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal
by Lloyd C. Douglas
473 pages // published in 1939 // Classic fiction
BOOK DESCRIPTION
THIS has been an eventful day. We formally opened our new hospital this afternoon. The city's medical profession was ably represented and many of our well-to-do philanthropists came for tea and a tour of inspection.
Everybody commented on our astounding luck in disposing of the shabby old building in Cadillac Square for a quarter of a million. Lucky, they said, that our site had been chosen for the new skyscraping office building. And what a lucky dog I was, added the mayor, that this exquisitely landscaped four-acre tract came onto the market just as we had begun to look for a new location...
THIS has been an eventful day. We formally opened our new hospital this afternoon. The city's medical profession was ably represented and many of our well-to-do philanthropists came for tea and a tour of inspection.
Everybody commented on our astounding luck in disposing of the shabby old building in Cadillac Square for a quarter of a million. Lucky, they said, that our site had been chosen for the new skyscraping office building. And what a lucky dog I was, added the mayor, that this exquisitely landscaped four-acre tract came onto the market just as we had begun to look for a new location...
The story behind the story of The Magnificent Obsession...
An entertaining read, especially for fans of the original novel. I still don't agree with the doctrine it teaches (or lack thereof), but I enjoyed hearing more about the doctor's private life and about some of his adventures/acts of kindness.
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