The Blood of Strangers: true stories from the emergency room

The Blood of Strangers: true stories from the emergency room image
ISBN-10:

1841154458

ISBN-13:

9781841154459

Author(s): Huyler, Frank
Edition: First Edition
Released: Jan 04, 2001
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Format: Hardcover, 182 pages
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Description:

A haunting and exquisitely observed collection of medical vignettes that brilliantly captures the intense drama of the Emergency RoomReminiscent 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 elegant stories, Dr Frank Huyler reveals a side of medicine - the intricacy of suturing a facial wound, the bath a patient receives from her husband and daughter - interwoven with the lives of the 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-seaking missile. At times surreal, at times lyrical, at times brutal and terrifying, The Blood of Strangers is a deeply affecting first book from one of the most dramatic specialities of modern medicine.


























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