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Rituals of surgery: Short stories
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March 12, 2021
A collection of medically related short stories. Selzer’s writing is beautiful and I found these stories interesting. I wouldn’t really recommend this book though because Selzer’s vulgar and crass plots in his short stories would turn off most people.
March 3, 2020
Entertaining tales. Early Selzer... I think his latter books are a bit more effective.
Did Not Finish
May 27, 2026Definitely written by an old white man in the 70’s
November 21, 2009
During PA school I chanced upon Selzers works (there are several more of various quality in my opinion) and enjoyed his candid discussion of historical medicine if the form of chapter stories. Subsequent books focus on his own personal experiences. All are easy reads for folks interested in medical history and procedures.
September 20, 2016
He was a master of the medically-informed short story. Compelling, scary, literate, and funny. He fearlessly invented neologisms, created horribly flawed narrators, and sent stories crashing to messy endings.
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