LEADER 02955nam 2200505 450 001 9910824108703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-63101-018-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000001152587 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4714131 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4714131 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11372392 035 $a(OCoLC)868964285 035 $a(BIP)049104094 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001152587 100 $a20170424h20072007 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aFourteen stories $edoctors, patients, and other strangers /$fby Jay Baruch 210 1$aKent, Ohio :$cThe Kent State University Press,$d2007. 210 4$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (131 pages) 225 1 $aLiterature and Medicine ;$v9 330 8 $aPlunging into one of Jay Baruchs stories is like finding yourself in a busy Emergency Room at two in the morninghere you will meet characters whose lives are urgent and not always what they seem on the surface. Like his characters, Baruchs writing is vibrant and intense, and his vision is prismatic. He speaks in many voices, among them doctor, patient, family member, medical student, and even ER janitor, and so examines the world of health and illness from many points of view. I appreciate the way Baruch acknowledges the complexity of life, and then dissects it for us into so many planes of action and consequence.Cortney Davis, author of The Hearts Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing (Kent State University Press, 2009) An emergency physician and faculty member at Brown Medical School, Jay Baruch has long been fascinated by how illness can make people strangers to their own bodies, how we all struggle to maintain control as the body decays and life slowly becomes unrecognizable, and how health professionals discove r and struggle with the limits of their own competence and compassion. In Fourteen Stories, Baruch doesnt present a series of clinically based essays but a rich collection of short fiction that gives voice to a variety of people who, faced with difficult moral choices, find themselves making disturbing self-discoveries. Baruchs unique voice is a welcome addition to the genre of medical narrativesfiction and non-fiction alikethat is becoming increasingly important to medical and nursing schools and university curricula. 410 0$aLiterature and medicine (Kent, Ohio) ;$v9. 606 $aPhysicians$vFiction 606 $aPatients$vFiction 606 $aPhysician and patient$vFiction 610 $aFiction 610 $aPhysicians 615 0$aPhysicians 615 0$aPatients 615 0$aPhysician and patient 676 $a813.6 700 $aBaruch$b Jay$01596411 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824108703321 996 $aFourteen stories$93917760 997 $aUNINA