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The Good Doctor is 'n roman wat geskryf is deur Damon Galgut.

Die storie fokus op 'n egoïstiese dokter genaamd Frank Eloff.

Hy werk in 'n ondergeskikte posisie by 'n plattelandse hospitaal, geknak deur 'n gebrek aan geld en apatiese pasiënte en personeellede.

Die hospitaal is geleë in wat voorheen 'n tuisland was van die Bantoe-mense.

Onder Suid-Afrika se apartheidsbewind was die streek 'n stamreservaat en het 'n tipe van nasie-staat status gehad met sy eie vlag en wetgewers, maar na die val van apartheid het die gebied deel geword van Suid-Afrika en nie langer sy eie outonomie gehad nie.

Eloff is hoogs pessimisties en op sy gemak met sy siening, in elk geval totdat Laurence Waters, 'n jeugdige medikus, opdaag.

Die twee deel 'n kamer en Waters het doelbewus 'n gewigtige onderneming gekies in 'n poging om by te dra tot die lot van die nuwe post-apartheid Suid-Afrika.

Die twee word eksperimentele vriende en is die teenstelling van mekaar, want Eloff se sinisisme en Waters se optimisme word naas mekaar gestel.

Waters word paslik genoem, want hy simboliseer die reiniging van die mure wat die ander dokters opgesit het om die waarheid weg te hou.

Ander karakters in die boek sluit in Dr. Ngema, sy baas, wat voortdurend die mantras herhaal wat uiteengesit is deur die post-apartheidsregering.

Sy herhaal die frase "nuwigheid en verandering." Daar is ook twee dokters van Kuba wat verwar word deur die self-misleidings wat heers onder Suid-Afrikaners van die vroeë post-apartheid era.

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The Good Doctor is a novel that was written by Damon Galgut.

The story centers on an egotistical doctor named Frank Eloff.

He works in a subordinate position at a rural hospital crippled by a paucity of money and apathetic patients and staff members.

The hospital is located in what was previously a homeland of the Bantu people.

Under South Africa's apartheid regime, the region was a tribal reserve and had a sort of nation-state status with its own flag and lawmakers, but after the fall of apartheid, the area became part of South Africa and no longer had its own autonomy.

Eloff is highly pessimistic and at ease with his viewpoint, at least until Laurence Waters, a youthful medic, arrives.

The two share a room, and Waters purposely chose an onerous undertaking in an attempt to contribute to the fate of the new post-apartheid South Africa.

The two become tentative friends and are the antithesis of each other as Eloff's cynicism is juxtaposed with Waters' optimism.

Waters is aptly named, as he symbolizes the cleansing of the walls the other doctors have put up to keep the truth away.

Other characters in the book include Dr. Ngema, his boss, who constantly repeats the mantras set forth by the post-apartheid regime.

She repeats the phrase "innovation and change." There are also two doctors from Cuba who are confused by the self-deceptions that are prevalent among South Africans of the early post-apartheid era.

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