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Medical professionals occur often in Adams's stories. Clyde Drake, the incompetent psychiatrist whose botched shock treatments kill Sally Jane in A Southern Exposure (1995), is the epitome of Adams's questionable doctors, along with the idea of the doctor as an authority figure. The California setting and the focus on friendship are frequent Adams motifs. Women's friendship has been a staple since her earliest novels, and the concerns presented in Superior Women (1984; see separate entry), extending from the 1940s until the 1980s, continuing the tradition of friendship and...
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