DOCTOR DESTINY

By Dr. Edward R. Janjigian '33. Telegraph Press, 1946, pp. 211,$3.00

This is an interesting, well-written life story of one who surpassed almost insurmountable difficulties to become a successful physician. Alway a strange introspective youth with few friends, living with a hostile, unsympathetic, cruel father who did his utmost to break him physically and mentally and insisting that he become a grocery clerk in his store, the boy finally broke completely with him, and with aid from two older men and as a result of a promise to his dying mother to become a physician, he found himself an intern in an active hospital. Following the story of intern years which were filled with staff jealousies and incompetencies, Dr. Destiny continues to be mixed up in squabbles of cliques on the staff, love affairs and eventually marriage, has a disheartening beginning in private practice, but finally achieves considerable success in his specialty, psychiatry. Always an individualist and even a troublemaker in the opinion of his colleagues, he loses his hospital staff appointment and is tried before the State Board of Medical Examiners. The story ends in more tragedy with his return to his home town, a complete nervous breakdown followed by forced hospitalization, escape, and finally suicide at his mother's grave, but "home at last."