La Clinica Book Reviews

• Book review by Sara Nelson, MD, and Howard King, MD
  
  The older a physician becomes, especially these days, the harder it is to find time to read a good book. If we are lucky, we find a Moby Dick with good plot, development of character, and implications for our life goals. Such a book is La Clinica: A Doctor’s Journey Across Borders, an autobiographical work by David P Sklar, MD. more.....



• Review by Steve Fox, Taos Horse Fly
  
  "David Sklar’s “La Clinica” is a fine memoir of improvised rural doctoring and urban ER madness. It should touch everyone who’s driven by the sprawling UNM Medical Center complex on Lomas or traveled in the rural hinterlands of Mexico. And it’s funnier and more moving because it’s true. This is a great start for the Literature and Medicine Series."-- more.....



• Review by Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Bookworm Sez
  
  While “La Clínica” is a true story, it often reads like a creepy suspense novel. Sklar’s cast of characters will make you smile and some will nearly bring you to tears, but others are so unsettling that you’ll squirm as you read. Sklar’s story moves easily between his life in New Mexico and his past in Mexico, giving readers a peek inside two similar-but-different worlds. This book is easy to read and hard to put down.  more.....