{"product_id":"the-blood-of-strangers-stories-from-emergency-medicine","title":"The Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine","description":"“Suffused with the same intensity and abiding humanity as 'The Pitt', this slim collection of vignettes ― by a physician and poet in Albuquerque ― evokes the blood-soaked sights and smells of the emergency room.”―New York Times\n\nReminiscent 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.\n\nThe 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's The Doctor Stories.\"\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0520262514\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0520262514.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Huyler, Frank\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41873956438074,"sku":"DBV.0520262514.G","price":17.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0520262514-0.jpg?v=1793504954","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-blood-of-strangers-stories-from-emergency-medicine","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}