Overview
Another āpitch-perfect book of short essaysā (New York Times Book Review) from the acclaimed author of Blood of Strangers, this one exploring the contemporary practice of medicine from the perspective of a doctor with 25 years of experience in the ER.
In the late 1990s, a young physician in Albuquerque, New Mexico, published a stunning memoir of his experiences in the highly charged world of the ER.Ā Presented in a series of powerful, poetic vignettes,Ā The Blood of StrangersĀ became an instant classic.
Now, over two decades later, Dr. FrankĀ Huyler delivers another dispatch from the trenchesāthis time from the perspective of middle age. In portraits visceral, haunting, sometimes surreal,Ā HuylerĀ reveals the gritty reality of medicine practiced on the razorās edge between life and death.
From the doomed, like the Iraq vet with a brain full of shrapnel, to the self-destructive, like the young woman who inserts a sewing needle into her heart, to the transcendent, like the homeless Navajo artist whose sketches charm the nurses,Ā HuylerĀ assembles a profound mosaic of human suffering and grace, complemented by episodes from his personal life: the hail that fell the night his wife gave birth, his drive through a snowstorm to see his father in a ColoradoĀ ER, the beautiful wedding of his childhood friend with terminal cancer. Melding hard-earned wisdom with a poetās crystalline vision,Ā HuylerĀ evokes the awesome burden of responsibility, the exhaustion, the relief of a costume disco nurse party, and those rare occasions when the confluence of luck and science yield, in the authorās words, āmoments of breathtaking greatness.āĀ
White Hot LightĀ offers an unforgettable portrait of a field that illuminates society at its most vulnerable,Ā and its most elemental.
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This book title, White Hot Light (Twenty-Five Years in Emergency Medicine), ISBN: 9780062937339, by Frank Huyler, published by HarperCollins (August 25, 2020) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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