Title: A history of the present illness
Description: Sixteen linked stories explore the marginalized humanity in communities, hospitals, and nursing homes in San Francisco, including an elderly Chinese immigrant who is forced to make a painful sacrifice and a young veteran whose injuries symbolize the rest of his life.
Subjects: Physician and patient, Fiction, Physician-Patient Relations, Fiction, medical, San francisco (calif.), fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction & related items, General, Medicine in Literature, Fictional Works, American Medical fiction, Health Status
Places: San Francisco (Calif.)