{"product_id":"white-hot-light-twenty-five-years-in-emergency-medicine","title":"White Hot Light: Twenty-Five Years in Emergency Medicine","description":"\u003ch1\u003eWhite Hot Light: Twenty-Five Years in Emergency Medicine\u003c\/h1\u003eFrank Huyler,Frank Huyler\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003eAugust 25 2020\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9780062937339\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 0062937332\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST FOR THE JAN MICHALSKI PRIZE FOR LITERATURE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnother \"pitch-perfect book of short essays\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review) \u003c\/em\u003efrom the acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eBlood of Strangers\u003c\/em\u003e, this one exploring the contemporary practice of medicine from the perspective of a doctor with 25 years of experience in the ER.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1990s, a young physician in Albuquerque, New Mexico, published a stunning memoir of his experiences in the highly charged world of the ER. Presented in a series of powerful, poetic vignettes, \u003cem\u003eThe Blood of Strangers \u003c\/em\u003ebecame an instant classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, over two decades later, Dr. Frank Huyler delivers another dispatch from the trenches--this time from the perspective of middle age. In portraits visceral, haunting, sometimes surreal, Huyler reveals the gritty reality of medicine practiced on the razor's edge between life and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the doomed, like the Iraq vet with a brain full of shrapnel, to the self-destructive, like the young woman who inserts a sewing needle into her heart, to the transcendent, like the homeless Navajo artist whose sketches charm the nurses, Huyler assembles a profound mosaic of human suffering and grace, complemented by episodes from his personal life: the hail that fell the night his wife gave birth, his drive through a snowstorm to see his father in a Colorado ER, the beautiful wedding of his childhood friend with terminal cancer. Melding hard-earned wisdom with a poet's crystalline vision, Huyler evokes the awesome burden of responsibility, the exhaustion, the relief of a costume disco nurse party, and those rare occasions when the confluence of luck and science yield, in the author's words, \"moments of breathtaking greatness.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhite Hot Light \u003c\/em\u003eoffers an unforgettable portrait of a field that illuminates society at its most vulnerable, and its most elemental.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67391708823597,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_d01cc056-d54c-458e-b2d5-e09bd3d0ee53.jpg?v=1787356734","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/white-hot-light-twenty-five-years-in-emergency-medicine","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}