What's left out / Jay Baruch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baruch, Jay, author.

Series:

Literature and medicine (Kent, Ohio) ; 21.

Literature and medicine ; 21

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Medical fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

viii, 128 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2015]

Summary:

With imagination and an eye for detail, writer and physician Jay Baruch takes readers on an unsparing ride through the strange landscape of contemporary health care to experience the bizarre, ignored, or misunderstood challenges facing healers and the ill. In this collection of short stories, communities shoulder unrelenting burdens, optimism is held with caution, and people ration their dreams and their sanity. Baruch's vivid storytelling captures the emotionally fraught and absurd challenges he has faced during his twenty years as an emergency physician. The stories in What's Left Out ask readers to take risks, to make leaps into unfamiliar territory, and, like the larger health care enterprise, to develop comfort and trust in the untraditional and unexpected. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Satellites 1

2 Emotional Contagion 5

3 Soft Landings 17

4 Sunday Night 31

5 Comfortable 38

6 Rainbow 50

7 The Telephone Pole 53

8 What's Left Out 69

9 Empowerment Centers 77

10 Open Ended 90

11 Avignon 103

12 Fortunata 108

13 Calling the Code 125.

ISBN:

9781606352335

1606352334

OCLC:

894747848