Laurence Waters arrives at his rural hospital posting full of optimism. Frank, the disgruntled deputy, is forced to share his room with the new arrival but is determined to stay out of Laurence’s ambitious schemes. When the dilapidated hospital is looted, the two men find themselves uneasy allies in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present.
The Good Doctor is author Damon Galgut’s fifth novel. It focuses on one doctor’s struggle with his conscience in a rural hospital in post-apartheid South Africa.