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Résumé :

2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Bronze Award for Short Fiction

Short stories about the complex maze of health care

Conventional medical narratives often fail to capture the incoherent, surreal, and logic-twisting reality of the contemporary healthcare experience, where mystery, absurdity, and even cruelty are disguised as logic, reason, and compassion. In this new collection of stories by physician and writer Jay Baruch, characters struggle in their quest for meaning and a more hopeful tomorrow in a strange landscape where motivations are complex and convoluted and what is considered good and just operates as a perpetually shifting proposition.

Readers are invited to eavesdrop on the conversations and thoughts of those negotiating the healthcare landscape while attempting to maintain their sanity. Each glimpse into the minds of patients, doctors, and family members reveals the stark reality that reason and compassion are not always the lifeblood of a system devoted to healing. From a weary night shift doctor dealing with a chronic patient to a physician figuring out how to tell the next of kin about a relative'...

Biographie:
Jay Baruch obtained his medical degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA before working as an emergency physician. Currently, Baruch is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Brown University’...

Sommaire:
s death, each of Baruch'...