Blood of Strangers - Stories From Emergency Medicine

Zusatztext "The stories illustrate Huyler's understanding of medicine and psychology as aids to humanity, not means to a physician's self-glorification." Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Hailed by "The Boston Globe" as "a compact! faceted gem that shines with intelligence!" this stunning collection offers a startling and moving look at people whose lives are on the line and the men and women who try to keep them from crossing it. These twenty-eight vignettes seamlessly juxtapose visceral portrayals of life-and-death medical situations with lyrical meditations on the world of medicine and the world at large. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Huyler
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2009
• EAN: 9780520262515
• ISBN: 978-0-520-26251-5
• No. of pages: 163
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Family & health, Health systems and services