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The Blood of Strangers. Stories from Emergency Medicine.
Frank Huyler
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Description for The Blood of Strangers. Stories from Emergency Medicine.
Paperback. A portrayal of a physician's encounters with the highly charged world of an emergency room. It 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. Num Pages: 163 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 240.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
163
Condition
New
Number of Pages
163
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520262515
SKU
V9780520262515
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Frank Huyler
Frank Huyler is an emergency physician in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is a graduate of Williams College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his poetry has appeared in such periodicals as The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, and Poetry, among others.
Reviews for The Blood of Strangers. Stories from Emergency Medicine.
"The author of these doctor stories is an E.R. physician as well as a poet, and his work shows the economy and sharp attention that both jobs demand."
New Yorker
"Huyler's perfectly titled collection of ultra-brief stories . . . has the force of literature because he does not ignore either medicine's rewards or its price. Without sentimentality ... Read more
New Yorker
"Huyler's perfectly titled collection of ultra-brief stories . . . has the force of literature because he does not ignore either medicine's rewards or its price. Without sentimentality ... Read more