Author: Terrence Holt
Year: 2014
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Non Fiction, Science, Short Stories, Memoirs
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9781631490873
9781863956901
1631490877
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A collection of essays about life as a surgical intern.
Terrence Holt, whose In the Valley of the Kings was hailed as a "work of genius" (New York Times) and made Amazon's Top Ten Short Story Collections of the year, brings a writer's eye and a doctor's touch to this powerful account of residency.
Intense, ironic, heartfelt, and heartbreaking, these nine vivid stories put us at the bedside of a patient dying in a house full of cursing parrots, through a nightmarish struggle to convince a man that he has cancer, at a life-and-death effort to keep an oxygen mask on a claustrophobic patient, and in the lounge of a snowbound hospital where doctors swap yarns through the night.
Out of these "dioramas from the Museum of Human Misery", Holt draws meaning, beauty, wonder, and truth. Personal, poignant, and meticulously precise, these stories evoke Chekhov, Maugham, and William Carlos Williams, admitting readers to the beating heart of medicine. Internal Medicine is an account of what it means to be a doctor, to be mortal, and to be human.
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