Internal medicine : a doctor's stories /
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 to his experiences as a first-year graduate doctor. Intense, ironic, heartfelt, and heartbreaking, these n...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Collingwood, Vic. :
Black Inc. Books,
2014.
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| ISBN: | 9781922231819 1922231819 9780871408808 0871408805 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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 to his experiences as a first-year graduate doctor. Intense, ironic, heartfelt, and heartbreaking, these nine vivid episodes take us to 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, to a life-and-death effort to keep an oxygen mask on a claustrophobic patient, and into the lounge of a snowbound hospital where doctors swap yarns through |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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