Strangers' Blood. True Stories from the Emergency Department

Frank Hiler is an emergency department doctor in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the author of the books Strangers' Blood, The Laws of Invisible Things, and The Right to Thirst. His works have appeared in Atlantic, The Georgia Review, Poetry, and many other publications. An exquisitely composed collection of gripping medical notes in the style of Chekhov's prose. Magnificently captured the drama of everyday life in the emergency department. In this book, Frank Hiler – a poet and doctor from Albuquerque – sheds light on that side of medicine, where each fleeting moment of medical duties is woven into the fabric of life or death for severely ill or maimed individuals, in the form of short stories. He introduces us to a multitude of interesting characters, who are not only patients but also colleagues: a practicing witch; a neurosurgeon; a trauma surgeon who unexpectedly commits suicide; a wounded killer; and a man pursued in the New Mexico desert by a deadly rocket. At times surreal, at times lyrical, at times cruel and horrifying, the book Strangers' Blood is a poignant writing debut from a representative of one of the most challenging fields of contemporary medicine.