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7.6/10 TV Country Canada Publication date January 17, 2006 | 7.7/10 IMDb Author Language English First episode date 2010 Cast Shawn Ash | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ISBN 978-0-385-66143-0 (Doubleday)ISBN 978-1-60286-000-1 (Weinstein Books) Awards Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Guest Role Dramatic Series Nominations Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role Dramatic Series Similar Remedy, Saving Hope, Murdoch Mysteries, ReGenesis, The Border | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures is a short story collection by Vincent Lam, published in 2006. The book, inspired by Lam's own experiences in medical school and as a professional physician, is a volume of interconnected short stories about the lives and relationships of Fitzgerald, Ming, Chen and Sri, four young medical students in Toronto.
Bloodletting won the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Television adaptation
On November 10, 2006, Canadian production company Shaftesbury Films announced a deal with Lam to adapt the book into an eight-episode television series. According to TMN spokesperson Michelle Marion, "ER is a medical drama for conventional television. Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures is a medical drama for pay television."
The series went into production in 2009, and debuted in January 2010 on The Movie Network and Movie Central's multiplex service, HBO Canada. The show's cast includes Shawn Ashmore as Fitz, Mayko Nguyen as Ming, Keon Mohajeri as Sri, and Byron Mann as Chen. Jason Sherman wrote the teleplay. Guest stars include Tatiana Maslany, Zoie Palmer, and William Ellis.