Red Beard's ClinicYasumoto Noboru completed three years of medical studies in Nagasaki where he learned the latest advances in Western medicine. He expects to be appointed to the position of a doctor for the shogunate. To his dismay, the ambitious young doctor will spend the next year as an apprentice doctor at a public charity clinic run by a crusty, old doctor nicknamed Red Beard. What lessons will Red Beard teach Noboru during this tumultuous year? |
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An Urgent Plea | |
The Mujina Row House | |
The Third Times a Charm | |
The Hopeless Gamble | |
The Bush Warbler | |
Kumes Killing | |
A Sprout Under the | |
About the Author Credits | |
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