GOLDBLATT’S DESCENT
Book ID/图书代码： 00970012B54688
English Summary/英文概要： ’But I just killed someone!’’I don’t know if I’d shout about it if I were you.’ Malcolm Goldblatt paused. ’Look, you didn’t kill him. He had a malignancy, didn’t he? It was waiting to happen. You just ... helped.’
In the vein of Howard Jacobson (霍華．傑可布森), Paul Torday(保羅．托迪) and Joseph Heller(約瑟夫．海勒), comes a biting, blackly funny and bitterly sad novel of doctors, patients, lost hopes and last chances.
Contrary, obstinate but brilliant, Dr. Malcolm Goldblatt is on his last chance. As the new but temporary senior doctor of a London hospital, he needs to prove to himself, and the medical establishment, that he can fall into line. But Goldblatt has already made and almost destroyed a career by doing exactly the opposite.
From Dr. Madic, a knot of unresolved sexual issues, unremitting aversion to work and tight skirts, to Dr. Burton, all knife-in-the-back ambition, Goldblatt soon finds that this hospital is frighteningly familiar to those he has worked in before; dysfunctional and bureaucratic, where caring for patients is secondary to caring for business.
As Goldblatt descends into the medical chaos of Floor Five, overseen by the fragile yet monstrous ego of Professor Small, he slowly sinks to the point of no return, where self-abnegation is killing him, and self-destruction seems like the only remedy.
Shifting its register effortlessly from absurd comedy to very real pathos, Goldblatt’s Descent is both a clear-eyed excoriation of the injustices and inanities of hospital officialdom, and a deeply humane defence of medicine.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在<白色巨塔> 墮落是存活的唯一方式「我殺了病人！」（抖）
「不，你沒有。病人本來就有惡性腫瘤對吧？你只是…幫他一把而已。」
滿懷抱負的新手醫生 想在白色巨塔生存
墮落 同流合污是唯一「解救」自己的方式？
在醫界打滾並屢屢對業界失望後，Goldblatt醫生決定給自己最後一次機會。這次他到倫敦醫院服務，決心向自己證明，他仍可以繼續在業界一展抱負。
但隨著日子一天天過去，Goldblatt發現倫敦醫院與先前服務過的醫院並無不同…奇形怪狀的同仁與現象到處都是：不務正業老是偷懶泡妹的醫生、野心只放在升遷上的醫生、比病人更需要心理諮詢重建自我的醫生，在醫界，官僚作風比比皆是，違背醫德是家常便飯，而商業利益一向比服務病人還優先…。
作者Michael Honig醫生曾在倫敦許多教學醫院闖蕩，滿懷壯志與道德感進入醫界，卻對這座白色巨塔深感失望，以此書表達在醫界所見的人性醜陋及種種荒謬現象。
(Eva)
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About the Author/作者介绍： MICHAEL HONIG trained in medicine. He worked at a number of London’s teaching hospitals and still lives in London.
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