Who is Barney Livingston?

Barney Livingston is a lead character of Erich Segal's famous fiction work 'The Doctors'. The story revolves around Harvard Medical School class of 1962 and has an interesting take on medical ethics, euthanasia, psychiatry and overall medical school rigors.

Barney Livingston takes the center stage along with Laura Castellano, who are neighbors since their childhood and develop an untold bond eventually marrying each other. Barney, as Erich Segal describes, is a hero who is patient, romantic, helpful and hence takes Psychiatry as his chosen career after medical school.