Archive for August 31, 2009
EVERY PATIENT TELLS A STORY by Lisa Sanders
EVERY PATIENT TELLS A STORY, by Dr. Lisa Sanders, an internist and teacher at the Yale University School of Medicine, is a mesmerizing look at the way sick people are treated and mistreated, often with the best of intentions, by their physicians. In her introduction, the author insists that every story she relates, however improbable, is real. The names of the patients and some of the doctors have been changed to protect confidentiality. Sanders is a technical advisor for the hit show, HOUSE…
August 31, 2009
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DIRECT RED by Gabriel Weston
According to Gabriel Weston, author of DIRECT RED, her thematic account of her training to be a surgeon in London is “not, in the strictest sense, true,” nor are the characters she describes real. She divides her narrative into fourteen brief chapters, each with a one-word title, such as death, beauty, emergencies, and ambition. Although Direct Red is partly based on Weston’s experiences, the events depicted in these pages are fictitious…
August 31, 2009
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