The Blood of Strangers (eBook)

Stories from Emergency Medicine

Frank Huyler (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

1999
163 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-95072-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Reminiscent of Chekhov's stories, The Blood of Strangers is a visceral portrayal of a physician's encounters with the highly charged world of an emergency room. In this collection of spare and elegant stories, Dr. Frank Huyler reveals a side of medicine where small moments-the intricacy of suturing a facial wound, the bath a patient receives from her husband and daughter-interweave with the lives and deaths of the desperately sick and injured.The author presents an array of fascinating characters, both patients and doctors-a neurosurgeon who practices witchcraft, a trauma surgeon who unexpectedly commits suicide, a wounded murderer, a man chased across the New Mexico desert by a heat-seeking missile. At times surreal, at times lyrical, at times brutal and terrifying, The Blood of Strangers is a literary work that emerges from one of the most dramatic specialties of modern medicine. This deeply affecting first book has been described by one early reader as "e;the best doctor collection I have seen since William Carlos Williams's The Doctor Stories."e;

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.9.1999
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
• Schlagworte: accidents • Anthology • Blood • Career • collection of stories • Disease • Emergency Medicine • emergency rooms • Emotional • er physicians • fast paced • firsthand accounts • Healthcare • human struggles • Illness • Injury • Life and Death • Literary Nonfiction • lyrical essays • medical professionals • medical world • Memoirs • modern medicine • neurosurgeons • New Mexico • nonfiction stories • patients and doctors • Retrospective • trauma surgeons • vignettes • visceral
• ISBN-10: 0-520-95072-0 / 0520950720
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-95072-6 / 9780520950726