The Last Half Hour of the Day: An Anthology of Stories and Essays That Have Inspired Physicians

About this book

Written by well-known and emerging writers this collection of literary prose was carefully chosen for its insight on the many topics physicians encounter daily from celebrating a miraculous recovery facing a tough ethical dilemma to accepting the death of a colleague and coming to grips with ones own illness. Many of the pieces included in this moving collection were nominated by the physician readers of some of the worlds leading medical journals and are augmented by other pieces selected by the editors.