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1 online resource |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Dedication; Contents; Author 's Introduction; A Sign of Weakness; Giving Bad News; Orphan; The Perfect Code; When I was Wrong; Heart Failure; The Surgical Mask; Iron Maiden; The Grand Inquisitor; About the Author; Back Cover |
| 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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Holt, Terry
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| SUBJECT |
Holt, Terry. fast (OCoLC)fst01925987 |
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Medicine -- Anecdotes.
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Internal medicine -- Anecdotes
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Physician and patient -- Anecdotes
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Physicians -- United States -- Biography
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Internal medicine.
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Medicine.
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Physician and patient.
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Physicians.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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Biographies.
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Anecdotes.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781922231819 |
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1922231819 |
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9780871408808 |
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0871408805 |
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