A01=Frank Huyler
accidents
anthology
Author_Frank Huyler
blood
career
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DNL
Category=MBP
Category=NL-MJ
collection of stories
COP=United States
Discount=15
disease
emergency medicine
emergency rooms
emotional
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
er physicians
fast paced
firsthand accounts
Format=BC
Format_Paperback
healthcare
HMM=210
human struggles
illness
IMPN=University of California Press
injury
ISBN13=9780520262515
Language_English
life and death
literary nonfiction
lyrical essays
medical professionals
medical world
memoirs
modern medicine
neurosurgeons
new mexico
nonfiction stories
PA=Available
patients and doctors
PD=20100713
POP=Berkerley
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
PUB=University of California Press
retrospective
SMM=15
Subject=Clinical & Internal Medicine
trauma surgeons
vignettes
visceral
WG=227
WMM=140
Product details
- ISBN 9780520262515
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 227g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210 x 15mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: Berkerley, US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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' "The Doctor Stories".
Frank Huyler is an emergency physician in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is a graduate of Williams College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his poetry has appeared in such periodicals as The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, and Poetry, among others.
