The Doctor Stories [Paperback]

Williams shockingly vivid portraits of bigotry and bias ultimately serve to expose the normally opaque medical practitioner, examining the examiner where his flaws are most flagrant...The collection moves like a surgeon: It makes you uncomfortable and looks at you naked. Then, it changes you.This is powerful but not comfortable reading, in the prose of a poet and the vision of a healer. I wish all doctors would read it.Stories written with the swift, concise, unsentimental exactitude of a great diagnostician who also happened to be a great poet.A stunning combination of ease and urgency.A new edition of one of the best books ever written about being a doctor: writing as aware and memorable as Chekhovs.