The Blood of Strangers: True stories from the emergency room
Author: Huyler, Frank
ISBN: 9781841155494
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 2001
Pages: 192
Dimensions: 198mm x 137mm x 11mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
A haunting and exquisitely-observed collection of medical vignettes that brilliantly captures the intense drama of the Emergency Room
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 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.
ISBN: 9781841155494
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 2001
Pages: 192
Dimensions: 198mm x 137mm x 11mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
A haunting and exquisitely-observed collection of medical vignettes that brilliantly captures the intense drama of the Emergency Room
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 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.
