This unique collection of medical stories approaches its theme from many eras and perspectives.
The meaning of illness - does it have any? - and of life itself, is called into question - and all in the most entertaining way imaginable..
Not quite everyone is healed.
Nurses go about their important business, not always appreciated.
Doctors observe patients; patients observe doctors.
Ballard, Robert Heinlein, Dorothy Parker, Jhumpa Lahiri and Alice Munro all feature.
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Henry, J.
Maupassant, Stevenson, Kipling, Conrad, Graham Greene, O.
Bulgakov, too, draws on his own experience as a doctor in rural Russia a century ago, while Anna Kavan\'s story from Asylum Piece, takes a surreal look inside a Swiss psychiatric clinic, and Lorrie Moore\'s witty, grief-stricken Mother in \'People Like Us Are the Only People Here\' examines the feelings of a parent with a child in the Paediatric Oncology war - \'Peed Onk\'.
Some of the authors included were themselves physicians, notably Chekhov, Conan Doyle, Somerset Maugham and William Carlos Williams.
This unique collection of medical stories approaches its theme from many eras and perspectives
