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The Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine

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Availability:In StockContributor:Frank HuylerPublish date:2009-09-01Pages:163
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520262515ISBN-10:520262514UPC:9780520262515Book Category:MedicalBook Subcategory:Emergency Medicine, Health Care DeliverySize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC3B3SMFF8
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 "the best doctor collection I have seen since William Carlos Williams's The Doctor Stories."
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520262515ISBN-10:520262514UPC:9780520262515Book Category:MedicalBook Subcategory:Emergency Medicine, Health Care DeliverySize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC3B3SMFF8
Frank Huyler is an emergency physician in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the author of the novel The Laws of Invisible Things. He grew up in Iran, Brazil, and Japan.
Publisher: University of California Press

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