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Title: The Doctor Stories
by William Carlos Williams, Robert Coles
ISBN: 0-8112-0926-1
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Pub. Date: April, 1985
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $10.95
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Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)

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Rating: 5
Summary: Literate doctoring
Comment: This is a wonderful book of short medically-based anecdotes, each of which emerses the reader in an entire world of sights, sounds, smells, emotions, and raw experience. Williams has a profound understanding of the delicate subtleties of human nature and he conveys his insights in brisk, understated prose. The thing I enjoy most about Williams' prose writing is his ability to create a scene in the reader's mind without giving the feeling that he is 'setting the scene'. He simply puts you there and moves on. In this sense, he is a quintessential American writer. His words move the mind, both kinetically and philosophically.

Also worth mentioning regarding this book is that it makes a wonderful gift for medical students or young people who are considering a career in pediatrics. Throughout his medical career, Dr. Williams set a wonderful personal example of providing care to those most in need - one of the many implicit lessons in this unique little book.

Rating: 4
Summary: A window to another era
Comment: I have just finished rereading this book for the first time in over a decade and it has enticed me into ordering a slim book of the poetry of William Carlos Williams. I am not, in general, a great lover of poetry, but he does such an excellent job conveying the exact details of a time and a place, of another era of medicine. Being a doctor myself helps to understand some of the situations, but he writes so specifically that anyone can see what he's trying to say. I like his use of exact, conversational quotes, and his unromantic, but generous view of his, often unhelpful, patients.

Rating: 4
Summary: Insightful
Comment: This is an interesting series of short stories by the great American poet, William Carlos Williams. Williams was actually Dr. Williams and practiced pediatrics for many years. These stories are built around a series of clinical vignettes from medical practice in the early part of the century. While these stories are not great literature, they are very good and Williams is very good at descriptions of clinical phenomena. Some of the clinical entities at the center of the stories are now rarely seen. These stories convey the experience of medical practice in this era very well and several stories have considerable emotional power. This book will be of interest to anyone who likes American literature but will perhaps find the most appreciative audience among physicians.

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