The unknown assailant -- Prelude -- Through the dark, softly -- Faith -- Black bag -- Good scar -- Engineer in the desert -- Invitation -- Sunday morning -- Short arm of chromosome 4 -- Needle -- Dead lake -- Prisoner -- Numbers and voices -- Difference of opinion -- Bleeding girl -- I'm driving -- Burn -- Secret -- Speaking in tongues -- Power -- Jaw -- Virgin -- Sugar -- Liar -- The bee sting -- The house in the wilderness -- Time
Summary
"The Blood of Strangers is a visceral portrayal of a physician's encounters with the highly charged world of an emergency room. In this collection of stories, Dr. Frank Huyler reveals a side of medicine where small moments - the intricacy of suturing a facial wound, the bath a patient receives from her husband and daughter - interweave with the lives and deaths of the desperately sick and injured." "The author presents an array of fascinating characters, both patients and doctors - a neurosurgeon who practices witchcraft, a trauma surgeon who unexpectedly commits suicide, a wounded murderer, a man chased across the New Mexico desert by a heat-seeking missile."--Jacket
