The Doctor Stories

  • The Doctor Stories
    By William Carlos Williams

    Gathers poems, a selection from the author's autobiography, and a dozen stories about doctors, patients, errors in judgement, and breakthroughs

  • The Doctor Stories
    By William Carlos Williams

    Gathers poems, a selection from the author's autobiography, and a dozen stories about doctors, patients, errors in judgement, and breakthroughs

  • The Doctor Stories
    By Richard Selzer

    A collection of short fiction captures the emotions experienced by doctors, patients, and families as they face dramatic life and death situations and includes the new novella "Avalanche."

  • The Doctor Stories
    By Richard Selzer

    There was Mrs. Greenwald , with her wet chin and that cackle that just welled up out of her every little while . And Mr. Freitas , with those boiled swollen hands that looked like Blutwurst . His fist on the handle of his cane was like ...

  • The Doctor Stories
    By William Carlos Williams

    The writings are remarkably direct and freshly true. As Atul Gawande notes, “Reading these tales,you find yourself in a conversation with Williams about who people really are—who you really are.

  • The Doctor Stories
    By William Carlos Williams

    Not only for students and doctors, this volume contains Williams's thirteen "doctor stories," several of his most famous poems on medical matters, and "The Practice" from The Autobiography.