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A history of present illness

Title

A history of present illness / Anna DeForest.

Author

DeForest, Anna, 1986-

Publication

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	JFC 22-451	Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

Description

169 pages; 19 cm

Summary

"A young woman puts on a white coat for her first day as a student doctor. So begins this powerful debut, which follows our unnamed narrator through cadaver dissection, surgical rotation, difficult births, sudden deaths, and a budding relationship with a seminarian. In the troubled world of the hospital, where the language of blood tests and organ systems so often hides the heart of the matter, she works her way from one bed to another, from a man dying of substance use and tuberculosis, to a child in pain crisis, to a young woman, fading from confusion to aphasia to death. The long hours and heartrending work begin to blur the lines between her new life as a physician and the lifelong traumas she has fled. In brilliant, wry, and biting prose, A History of Present Illness is a boldly honest meditation on the body, the hope of healing in the face of total loss, and what it means to be alive." --
A young student doctor discovers the long hours and heartbreaking work at the hospital begin to blur the lines between her new life as a physician and the traumas she's tried to flee from her past.

Subject

Genre/Form

Call Number

JFC 22-451

ISBN

LCCN

2021945109

OCLC

1338693575

Author

DeForest, Anna, 1986- author.

Title

A history of present illness / Anna DeForest.

Publisher

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022.

Copyright Date

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Research Call Number

JFC 22-451