Amazon.com Molly Bonner has a problem. Horrible， debilitating headaches have sent her tumbling down a medical rabbit hole into a nightmarish world of hospitals， tests， and-- worst of all--unfeeling male doctors who all suffer in varying degrees from the delusion that they are God. Her specialist， her surgeon， her best friend's lover， and even her own boyfriend are cut from this same arrogant cloth. This raises the question early in Alice Adams's novel Medicine Men， why doesn't Molly just find a woman doctor and a new beau? In Medicine Men Alice Adams explores many issues surrounding the doctor- patient relationship: the dismissive condescension doctors often display toward patients， the unquestioning acceptance of authority patients often grant their doctors. When the patient is a woman and the doctor a man， there's an added patina of expectation on both sides--that the woman be docile， a "good patient，" the man all-knowing， capable of solving all problems. These are fascinating subjects， but in making almost all the doctors male and unbearable and all the women passive and victimized， Adams is skating dangerously close to charicature rather than character. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal In Adams's breezily written tenth novel， Molly Bonner is having some trouble: her marriage to a stiff， alcoholic New England lawyer has failed; her second husband has just died， leaving her filthy rich with insurance money but terribly guilty because they were about to separate anyway; and the nose bleeds she's been having turn out to result from a golf ball-sized tumor demanding immediate surgery. What's worse， Molly has too many rapacious， self-absorbed "medicine men" in her life， from Dave Jacobs， the domineering creep with whom her friend Felicia has set her up， to Felicia's own married paramour， the oh-so-smug Dr. Raleigh Sanderson. What could have been a nice comedy of manners fall terribly， terribly flat. Even those with grave doubts about doctors will be offended by their depiction here as hopelessly shallow and sleazy， and some readers may find Molly a little shallow herself. With all the slick mating and remating going on， very little time is spent on the consequences for Molly of a possibly fatal disease. Buy where Adams is popular.?Barbara Hoffert， "Library Journal"Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information， Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. See all Editorial Reviews