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Length6h 3m
About this audiobook
Another “pitch-perfect book of short essays” (New York Times Book
Review) from the acclaimed author of Blood of Strangers, this one
exploring the contemporary practice of medicine from the perspective of a doctor
with 25 years of experience in the ER.
In 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, The Blood of Strangers became an
instant classic.
Now, 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.
From 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.”
White Hot Light offers an unforgettable portrait of a field that
illuminates society at its most vulnerable, and its most elemental.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.2 (1.1K)
Includes Goodreads, StoryGraph, Amazon, LibraryThing
GenreHealth and Wellness, Literary Classics, Biography and Memoir
Length6 hrs 3 mins
Narrated byGary Bennett
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateAug 25, 2020
LanguageEnglish
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