Fourteen Stories Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers

Name: Fourteen Stories Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers
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ISBN: 9780873388948

ISBN-10: 0873388941

ISBN-13: 9780873388948

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jay Baruch

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An emergency physician and faculty member at Brown Medical School, Jay Baruch has long been fascinated by how illness can make people strangers to their own bodies, how we all struggle to maintain control as the body decays and life slowly becomes unrecognizable, and how health professionals discover and struggle with the limits of their own competence and compassion. In Fourteen Stories, Baruch doesn't present a series of clinically based essays but a rich collection of short fiction that gives voice to a variety of people who, faced with difficult moral choices, find themselves making disturbing self-discoveries. Baruch's unique voice, reminiscent of William Carlos Williams, is a welcome…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Publication date: 3/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 152
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English




Breathing



Laceration repair



Thin walls



Accident room



A little heart



Road test



Mourning sickness



House call



Bed rest



Hedging



Dissections



Frozen



The spitter



Too long, too short


Afterword : narrative's disaster zone - the emergency department