num_pages: 192
description: A haunting and exquisitely-observed collection of medical vignettes that brilliantly captures the intense drama of the Emergency RoomReminiscent of Chekhovs stories, The Blood of Strangers is a visceral portrayal of a physicians 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.
language: English
title: The Blood of Strangers : True Stories from the Emergency Room
titlecomplete: The Blood of Strangers : True Stories from the Emergency Room
genres: Medicine, Biography, Science, Autobiography, Anthologies, Health Care, Nonfiction, Short Stories, Medical, Memoir
ratings_count: 442
publisher: Fourth Estate Paperbacks