title: Doctors: A Novel
author:  Erich Segal 
description: "A superior story . . . A moving and compelling novel of doctors and their fears--how they confront them or are confounded by them."--<i>UPI</i>.<br /><br />"Segal's best work to date."--<i>New York Post</i>
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  **Table of Contents**
  
  Also by Erich Segal
  
  Title Page
  
  Copyright
  
  Dedication
  
  Epigraph
  
  Prologue
  
  Part I: Spring 1978
  
  Chapter 1
  
  Chapter 2
  
  Chapter 3
  
  Chapter 4
  
  Chapter 5
  
  Chapter 6
  
  Chapter 7
  
  Chapter 8
  
  Chapter 9
  
  Chapter 10
  
  Chapter 11
  
  Part II: Summer 1978
  
  Chapter 12
  
  Chapter 13
  
  Chapter 14
  
  Part III: New York 1981
  
  Chapter 15
  
  Chapter 16
  
  Chapter 17
  
  Chapter 18
  
  Chapter 19
  
  Chapter 20
  
  Chapter 21
  
  Chapter 22
  
  Chapter 23
  
  Chapter 24
  
  Epilogue
  
  About the Author
  
  _Also by Erich Segal_
  
  Love Story
  
  Oliver’s Story
  
  Man, Woman and Child
  
  The Class
  
  Doctors
  
  Acts of Faith
  
  Prizes
  
  ONLY LOVE
  
  Erich Segal
  
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  First published in Great Britain in 1997 by Judy Piatkus (Publishers) Ltd
  
  This edition published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2013
  
  An Hachette UK company
  
  Copyright © Karen Segal 1997
  
  The right of Erich Segal to be identified as the Author of the Work has been
  asserted by him in acco