num_pages: 604
description: Eleventh-century England and Persia are the backgrounds of this story of an orphan named Rob Cole, who is apprenticed to a travelling barber-surgeon and, discovering in himself a gift for healing, decides to study medicine with the legendary Avicenna
language: English
title: The Physician
titlecomplete: The Physician
genres: Fiction, Historical, Medicine, Adventure, British Literature, Romance, Classics, Medieval, Novels, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 49633
places: Constantinople, Matlock, Persia, London, England
series: Cole Family Trilogy
publisher: Simon & Schuster