Bibliograph

Fourteen stories, doctors, patients, and other strangers

Type

Label

Fourteen stories, doctors, patients, and other strangers

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fourteen stories

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Literature and medicine, 9

Sub title

doctors, patients, and other strangers

Summary

An emergency physician and faculty member at Brown Medical School, Jay Baruch has long been fascinated by how illness can make people strangers to their own bodies, how we all struggle to maintain control as the body decays and life slowly becomes unrecognizable, and how health professionals discover and struggle with the limits of their own competence and compassion. In Fourteen Stories, Baruch doesn't present a series of clinically based essays but a rich collection of short fiction that gives voice to a variety of people who, faced with difficult moral choices, find themselves making disturbing self-discoveries. Baruch's unique voice is a welcome addition to the genre of medical narratives-fiction and non-fiction alike-that is becoming increasingly important to medical and nursing schools' and university curricula

Target audience

adult

Classification