Description
| Product ID: | 9781841155494 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Blood of Strangers |
| Subtitle: | True Stories from the Emergency Room |
| Authors: | Author: Frank Huyler |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | True stories: general, True stories, Popular medicine and health, Popular medicine & health |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A haunting and exquisitely-observed collection of medical vignettes that brilliantly captures the intense drama of the Emergency Room 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Fourth Estate Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2002-01-02 |