TY - BOOK AU - Gordon,Noah TI - The physician SN - 9781453271100 PY - 2012///] CY - Barcelona, New York PB - Barcelona Digital Editions, Distributed by Open Road Integrated Media KW - Avicenna, KW - Physicians KW - Fiction KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft N1 - Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1986 N2 - Read by millions in thirty-two countries, soon to be a major motion picture, and voted "one of the ten most-beloved books of all time," here is the English-language edition of Noah Gordon's masterwork in eleventh-century London, a child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware "something" is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift-an acute sensitivity to impending death-never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer ER -