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02064aam a2200349 i 4500 001 985FB40EB8CA11EDAC6855BD37ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230302011926 008 210329s2021 aru e 000 j eng d 020 $a 1951479564 020 $a 9781951479565 020 $a 1951479645 020 $a 9781951479640 035 $a (OCoLC)1244434999 040 $a CASSC $b eng $e rda $c CASSC $d JUH $d SILO 100 1 $a Walker, Daly, $e author. 245 14 $a The doctor's dilemma : $b short stories / $c by Daly Walker. 264 1 $a Tempe, Arizona : $b Grand Canyon Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xiv, 304 pages ; $c 22-23 cm 520 $a Twelve literary short stories explore the frailties of the body and the mind. Surgeons face the limitations of their profession, including their own self-doubts and the ethical dilemmas the confront them on a daily basis. Doctors who serve in war zones from Vietnam to Afghanistan to the emergency room about to cave in during the onslaught of Covid-19 patients are tested as never before. Aging physicians confront their own lapses in judgment. Devotion to a career where they feel all powerful has sometimes meant the collapse of their marriages and estrangement from their children. A physician who visits a patient on death row must try to explain to his son what it means to be a healer. 505 0 $a At the door -- India's passage -- Drumlins -- Boots on the ground -- Pulsus Paradoxus -- Nui Ba Den -- Pascal's Law -- The crystal apple -- Jacob's wall -- Blood -- Bobolinks -- Resuscitation -- One day in the life of Dr. Ivan Jones -- Old dogs -- Palliation -- Corks in the ocean. 650 0 $a Physicians $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Surgeons $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mortality $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Medicine, Military $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Medical ethics $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Healing $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Medical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Short stories. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20230302013018.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=985FB40EB8CA11EDAC6855BD37ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search