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. 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-seeking missile. At
times surreal, at times lyrical, at times brutal and terrifying,
"The Blood of Strangers" is a literary work that emerges from one
of the most dramatic specialties of modern medicine. This deeply
affecting first book has been described by one early reader as 'the
best doctor collection I have seen since William Carlos Williams'
"The Doctor Stories".
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