The Long Climb: Young M.D., Garven Wilsonhulme, engaged in a social poker game of winner takes all

by Carl Douglass

Overview

Garven Wilsonhulme almost gasped as his prospective father-in-law handed him a check for a huge sum. He could not imagine himself in possession of a sum which would answer his every need until he could start making a handsome living as a brain surgeon. He looked at the gloating expression on his adversary's face–a look of triumph. To the young M.D., it seemed that he had become engaged in a social poker game with, for him, stupendous consequences riding on how he plays his hand. He could take the sure figure and run, or he could ask for even more. In either case he would crush the innocent pawn in all of this, Elizabeth. That was a secondary consideration, he had to admit to himself. Or he could do the “right thing” and turn the man down indignantly and marry his daughter and live happily ever after--in relative poverty. This is the crux of The Long Climb. What Garven does about his choice is likely to be the foundation of his life as a neurosurgeon and the stuff of a great story. The Long Climb, is the newest novel by Carl Douglass, neurosurgeon turned author who writes with gripping realism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594333583
Publisher:	Publication Consultants
Publication date:	09/30/2015
Series:	The Long Climb: Young M.D., Garven Wilsonhulme, engaged in a social poker game of winner takes all
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	218
File size:	691 KB

About the Author

The Long Climb author, Carl Douglass, a former neurosurgeon turned author who writes with gripping realism, has the luxury now in retirement to write about the turbulent era in which he lived and practiced the demanding profession of neurosurgery. His training was one of great rigor; his practice was one of heartbreaks and triumphs; and his social life bordered on nil. His good wife of fifty years and the author now enjoy their time of reflection, travel, and family relationships—all largely the product of his wife's steadfast support during the lean years, the years of succe