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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
The Blood of Strangers
True Stories from the Emergency Room
Verlag:
HarperCollins Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35177222
EAN: 9781841155494
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Nicht auf Lager
Zustellung: Mi, 14.10.2026
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Beschreibung
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.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Frank Huyler
Zielgruppe
- General
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2002
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Detailformat
- Taschenbuch
Anzahl Seiten
- 320