{"product_id":"white-hot-light-twenty-five-years-in-emergency-medicine-9780062937339","title":"White Hot Light: Twenty-Five Years in Emergency Medicine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST FOR THE JAN MICHALSKI PRIZE FOR LITERATURE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnother \"pitch-perfect book of short essays\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review) \u003c\/em\u003efrom the acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eBlood of Strangers\u003c\/em\u003e, this one exploring the contemporary practice of medicine from the perspective of a doctor with 25 years of experience in the ER.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1990s, a young physician in Albuquerque, New Mexico, published a stunning memoir of his experiences in the highly charged world of the ER. Presented in a series of powerful, poetic vignettes, \u003cem\u003eThe Blood of Strangers \u003c\/em\u003ebecame an instant classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, over two decades later, Dr. Frank Huyler delivers another dispatch from the trenches--this time from the perspective of middle age. In portraits visceral, haunting, sometimes surreal, Huyler reveals the gritty reality of medicine practiced on the razor's edge between life and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the doomed, like the Iraq vet with a brain full of shrapnel, to the self-destructive, like the young woman who inserts a sewing needle into her heart, to the transcendent, like the homeless Navajo artist whose sketches charm the nurses, Huyler assembles a profound mosaic of human suffering and grace, complemented by episodes from his personal life: the hail that fell the night his wife gave birth, his drive through a snowstorm to see his father in a Colorado ER, the beautiful wedding of his childhood friend with terminal cancer. Melding hard-earned wisdom with a poet's crystalline vision, Huyler evokes the awesome burden of responsibility, the exhaustion, the relief of a costume disco nurse party, and those rare occasions when the confluence of luck and science yield, in the author's words, \"moments of breathtaking greatness.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhite Hot Light \u003c\/em\u003eoffers an unforgettable portrait of a field that illuminates society at its most vulnerable, and its most elemental.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuyler, Frank:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eFrank Huyler is an emergency physician in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the author of the \u003cem\u003eThe Blood of Strangers, The \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eLaws of Invisible Things\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eRight of Thirst\u003c\/em\u003e. His poetry has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e, among others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52179894141202,"sku":"9780062937339","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e066d7ea-f5a5-475b-8867-a9e33ce0a964.jpg?v=1775640241","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/white-hot-light-twenty-five-years-in-emergency-medicine-9780062937339","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}