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The fragility of life. The persistence of hope. The marvels of medicine.Doctors are our modern saviors. And, yet who is the surgeon behind the mask or the doctor behind the stethoscope?In sixteen literary short stories, Daly Walker reveals the great weight that falls on the shoulders of healers. The line between life and death is often as thin as the blade of a surgeon's scalpel."India's Passage" reveals a surgeon facing his worst nightmare: a misstep that shakes his confidence and nearly ends his career. In "Blood" a surgeon must decide whether to save a life or respect a patient's religious beliefs. In "Boots on the Ground" a surgeon in Afghanistan confronts the irony of saving lives in the midst of a combat zone. And, in "Palliation" a doctor learns an important lesson about the Hippocratic oath.If you like stories brimming with emotion and characters whose flaws and self-doubts make them all the more human, then the luminous tales in Daly Walker's The Doctor's Dilemma will take you on profound journeys of discovery, redemption, and hope. Step inside the operating room where life hangs in the balance. Read The Doctor's Dilemma today.

Daly Walker's Surgeon Stories is a book of the body, and the physician, particularly the surgeon, is the shaman of the body. For many of us, the physician-surgeon has been the body's personal champion and sometimes savior in the face of disease, accident, aging, human violence, and war. While most of these categories of threat are inevitably faced by all of us, war is the ultimate ogre, and its ravages dwarf and challenge even the most skilled physician.Himself both a surgeon and a Vietnam veteran, Daly Walker has created an artful collection that compels us to consider the power of war as it slices through both the body and the sense of self. His two bookend stories spotlight the failure of generation after generation to end wars, but they also illumine the ability of the shaman, while flawed like every human, to open wide the doors of compassion.If you like stories where the line between life and death is as thin as a surgeon's scalpel, then you'll love Daly Walker's meditative stories about the practice of medicine.

"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. This book is for doctors, nurses, and health care professionals, but also for readers concerned with life, death, and healing."--Publisher's description.

Surgeon Stories explores the loneliness of the healer and the scars of war.