Fourteen Stories

by Baruch, Jay

• ISBN13: 9780873388948
• ISBN10: 0873388941
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-15
• Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr

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, reminiscent of William Carlos Williams, is a welcome addition to the genre of medical narratives--fiction and nonfiction alike--that is becoming increasingly important to medical and nursing schools' and university curricula.

Table of Contents

Breathing	p. 1
Laceration repair	p. 15
Thin walls	p. 19
Accident room	p. 38
A little heart	p. 47
Road test	p. 54
Mourning sickness	p. 60
House call	p. 76
Bed rest	p. 81
Hedging	p. 85
Dissections	p. 91
Frozen	p. 107
The spitter	p. 114
Too long, too short	p. 121
Afterword : narrative's disaster zone - the emergency department	p. 137
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