Given the popularity of medical dramas on TV, how did you find reading such material in book format? Is it fair to say it’s a closer representation of reality or not? Why do you think general public is so fascinated by medical drama?.Did you find certain medical scenes in the book "sickening"? Which one(s)? Do you think that this was Lam's intent in the way the scenes were written?.Were you more interested in the characters or in the medical situations?.
The eight-episode series is on the Movie Network and Movie Central beginning in January.(questions #9 and #11 are optional, depending on how many people read the stories referred to in those questions) In his final days, when he is very ill, Chen has to choose between ancient remedies and his grandson’s high-tech interventions. Chen is a character in the TV series, too. It’s about Percival Chen, a character inspired by Lam’s grandfather, who was a headmaster in Vietnam. These days, when not practising in Toronto East General Hospital’s emergency room, he is writing his first novel, Cholon, Near Forgotten. In 2006, Lam became the youngest and only first-time author to win the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada’s largest annual fiction award. Lam’s short stories, which chronicle the moral dilemmas that physicians face, often focus on Fitz (played by Ashmore) and Ming (played by Nguyen).
“I’m what is known as a late adopter of technology,” he quips. It’s amusing that Lam’s short story collection of the same name has turned into a TV series – because Lam (MD 1999) doesn’t own a TV. Vincent Lam (left) sees eye-to-eye with Mayko Nguyen as Shawn Ashmore looks on. On the set of Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, Dr.
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