Title: Tells us something, but perhaps not what the author intended
Product review: I found "The Tennis Partner" disappointing because ultimately Dr. Verghese has little insight into his friend's heart or mind. The use of his friend's life as a taking-off point seems exploitative. The repetitive passages on Dr. Verghese's self-described insightful diagnostic methods and his obsessive meanderings about tennis strike me as simply egocentric. That the book derived from journal musings is all too clear. It is marred as well by some writing errors, for example, the feeling that his head was caught "in a vice." It does serve as a warning about the misshaping of the person that can take place in the medical pressure cooker, but I believe not, ironically, in the way the author intended.
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