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[Davey Logan, Interne] is the story of a tough, stubborn farm boy who on the night that his mother died for lack of a doctor determined to be one…. Above all, it is the story of his interneship and a chain of unusual and dramatic circumstances that led to his return to practise medicine in the country village near his boyhood farm.
Mr. Felsen's book is not labeled "vocational fiction," but it does give the reader a good deal of insight into the training and problems of a young doctor. More often, it describes the struggle over values that is so often faced by young people in any vocation.
Ralph Adams Brown, "Books for Young People: 'Davey Logan, Interne'," in The Saturday Review of Literature (copyright © 1950 by Saturday Review; all rights reserved; reprinted by permission), Vol. XXXIII, No. 32, August 12, 1950, p. 33.
[Two and the Town] is a courageous book...
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