The Doctor Stories by William Carlos Williams
A new edition of one of the best books ever written about being a doctor: writing as aware and memorable as Chekhovs.
"Williams’ shockingly vivid portraits of bigotry and bias ultimately serve to expose the normally opaque medical practitioner, examining the examiner where his flaws are most flagrant..The collection moves like a surgeon: It makes you uncomfortable and looks at you naked. Then, it changes you." -- Claudia Ross - Cleveland Review of Books
"This is powerful but not comfortable reading, in the prose of a poet and the vision of a healer. I wish all doctors would read it." -- The Wall Street Journal
"Stories written with the swift, concise, unsentimental exactitude of a great diagnostician who also happened to be a great poet." -- Philip Gourevitch
"A stunning combination of ease and urgency." -- Booklist
"The Doctor Stories are clinical vignettes at their best and most engaging: dramatic, lively, full of the heroism it takes to be human." -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"This is powerful but not comfortable reading, in the prose of a poet and the vision of a healer. I wish all doctors would read it." -- The Wall Street Journal
"Stories written with the swift, concise, unsentimental exactitude of a great diagnostician who also happened to be a great poet." -- Philip Gourevitch
"A stunning combination of ease and urgency." -- Booklist
"The Doctor Stories are clinical vignettes at their best and most engaging: dramatic, lively, full of the heroism it takes to be human." -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Besides being a practicing physician, William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was a poet, short-story writer, novelist, translator, playwright, and essayist whose contribution to the development of modern American poetry grew out of his commitment to recording the "local" experience of Rutherford, New Jersey, and its environs. The surgeon and public health leader Dr. Atul Gawande is a MacArthur Fellow and a staff writer for the New Yorker and has written four New York Times best sellers.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780811228176 |
| ISBN 10 | 0811228177 |
| Title | The Doctor Stories |
| Author | William Carlos Williams |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Year published | 2018-10-16 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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