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The Blood of Strangers : Stories From Emergency Medicine.
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 o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Notas: | Acknowledgments; the unknown assailant; prelude; through the dark, softly; faith; black bag; a good scar; the engineer i n the desert; the invitation; sunday morning; the short arm of chromosome 4; needle; the dead lake; the prisoner; numbers and voices; a difference of opinion; the bleeding girl; i'm driving; burn; the secret; speaking in tongues; power; jaw; the virgin; sugar; liar; the bee sting; the house i n the wilderness; time. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (166 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780520950726 0520950720 0585467846 9780585467849 9786613291936 6613291935 1597345024 9781597345026 |