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Laddar... The Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine (1999)av Frank Huyler
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This is a fascinating look at the stories of emergency medicine as experienced by a young resident in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Most stories are heartwarming, others quite gross. But, overall this is a four star rating book told with authenticity and depth of feeling. This is a well-written, in-depth book. Reading about how Dr. Huyler saved the murderer even though he knew he was a murderer is what drew me into this book. These stories make you sad, some are funny, and some are gross. The story with the maggots was the thing I will remember most, oh the horrors of medicine! Huyler writes like a painter, very lyrical and artistic. Read it in a few hours. This will appeal to those interested in medicine, gore, and drama. A good read! inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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." Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Spare, nuanced, and often dark, Huyler’s first volume of literary stories based on his experience as a medical trainee and young ER doctor focuses on patients, hospital staff, and his own responses to both. Some of these pieces aren’t for the faint of heart, and I’m talking not only about some very gruesome medical details