The Case of Doctor Sachs

by Winckler, Martin; Asher, Linda

• ISBN13: 9781583222614
• ISBN10: 1583222618
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Seven Stories Pr

Summary

A casual telephone conversation, a fatal diagnosis, a tragic love affair. The events are often deceptively inconsequential; the composite effect, devastating. We come to see how one doctor's empathy for his fellow creatures can be both his motivating force & his own untreatable condition.

Author Biography

MARTIN WINCKLER was born in Algiers in 1955. In 1994, he quit practicing medicine to write full-time. He lives in France with his wife and children.

Table of Contents

Prologue	13	(4)
PRESENTATION (Wednesday, September 12)
The Oath	17	(1)
In the Waiting Room	18	(1)
How It Begins	19	(1)
A Consultation	20	(6)
The Permit	26	(3)
The Renewal	29	(1)
Amelie	30	(5)
Angele Pujade	35	(1)
Marie-Louise Renard	36	(6)
Madame Leblanc	42	(1)
Catherine Markson	43	(2)
The Butcher	45	(2)
The Next-Door Neighbor	47	(1)
Madame Destouches	48	(1)
Madame Leblanc	49	(2)
Consultation: Impossible (First Episode)	51	(1)
The Newsdealer	52	(3)
Madame Destouches	55	(2)
Romain at His Nanny's House	57	(3)
Madame Leblanc	60	(2)
In the Waiting Room	62	(11)
Presenting Complaints	65	(8)
HISTORY (Tuesday, October 7)
Madame Borges	73	(5)
Yves Zimmermann	78	(2)
Madame Leblanc	80	(5)
Jerome Boulle	85	(6)
Madame Leblanc	91	(5)
Inappropriate Thoughts	96	(8)
Angele Pujade	104	(1)
Pauline Kasser	105	(2)
Yves Zimmermann	107	(3)
Consultation: Impossible (Second Episode)	110	(1)
A Prescription	111	(2)
Madame Sachs	113	(9)
In the Waiting Room	122	(2)
Monsieur Guenot	124	(5)
The Specialist	129	(2)
Monsieur Guilloux	131	(16)
Sketches from Memory	135	(12)
CLINICAL EXAMINATION (Monday, November 18)
A Night Call	147	(5)
Monsieur and Madame Deshoulieres	152	(5)
Madame Leblanc	157	(7)
Madame Destouches	164	(4)
Consultation: Impossible (Third Episode)	168	(1)
Angele Pujade	169	(2)
In the Waiting Room	171	(2)
Diego Zorn	173	(3)
Speculums	176	(5)
Drawings	181	(3)
A Little Nothing	184	(2)
Phone Calls	186	(5)
The Pharmacists	191	(4)
In the Waiting Room	195	(1)
Fees	196	(2)
Wipes	198	(2)
The Inexpressible	200	(1)
Daniel Kasser	201	(2)
Catherine Markson	203	(16)
The Session	209	(10)
FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS (Sunday, February 29)
The Next-Door Neighbor	219	(2)
The Service Operator	221	(2)
The Next-Door Neighbor (Continued)	223	(2)
A Conversation	225	(2)
The Attack	227	(4)
A Love Story	231	(5)
The Baker's Wife	236	(2)
Phone Calls	238	(5)
Ray Markson	243	(2)
Pauline Kasser	245	(3)
In an Old Journal	248	(4)
Pauline Kasser	252	(1)
Stabbings	253	(3)
Two Handwritten Pages	256	(3)
Sutures	259	(4)
In the Small Logbook	263	(1)
In a New Journal	264	(2)
Consultation: Impossible (Fourth Episode)	266	(2)
Pauline Kasser	268	(2)
The Next-Door Neighbor (Final Installment)	270	(6)
Pauline Kasser	276	(17)
The Secret (Soft Version)	283	(10)
DIAGNOSIS (Saturday, March 29)
Clinical Picture	293	(4)
Madame Leblanc	297	(1)
Consultation: Impossible (Fifth Episode)	298	(3)
Inkjet	301	(1)
Monsieur Guenot Again	302	(3)
Three Sheets from a Thick Pad	305	(4)
In the Waiting Room	309	(1)
Viviane R.	310	(4)
Initial Observations	314	(5)
Viviane R.	319	(1)
A Love Story (Continued)	320	(4)
Madame Destouches	324	(4)
The Accountant	328	(1)
Viviane R.	329	(2)
The Signature	331	(4)
Lament	335	(2)
The Turn	337	(18)
The Secret (Hard Version)	341	(14)
TREATMENT (Friday, April 4)
The Secret (Original Version)	355	(8)
Madame Destouches	363	(3)
Monsieur Renard	366	(6)
Madame Leblanc	372	(3)
The Electrocardiogram	375	(4)
Consultation: Impossible (Sixth Episode)	379	(2)
In the Waiting Room	381	(2)
On the Leaflet	383	(8)
Pauline Kasser	391	(2)
The Fire Chief	393	(14)
The Page Proofs	397	(10)
PROGNOSIS (Thursday, June 26)
Madame Leblanc	407	(4)
Edmond Bouadjio	411	(3)
Consultation: Impossible (Seventh and Last Episode)	414	(2)
Kaddish	416	(2)
Still Monsieur Guenot	418	(3)
The Reading	421	(5)
Madame Serling	426	(2)
How It Ends	428	(2)
In the Waiting Room	430	(1)
Epilogue	431