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How long does it take to read Final Diagnosis, The?

Arthur Hailey

Final Diagnosis, The by Arthur Hailey takes about 6 hours to read at 250 words a minute.

About 6 hours

A weekend read

First published 1959. 327 pages, about 89,925 words.

12 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 10 hours
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 45 minutes

The page count is the median across 35 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

A story of the life and death struggles in a large hospital, it focuses on Joe Pearson, the chief pathologist who must make the final diagnosis on every patient, and eventually on himself.

Subjects: Fiction, general, Fiction, Physicians, Hospitals, Medical fiction, Pathologists

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