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2013

Format:	Book
Author:	Aronson, Louise.
Title:	A history of the present illness : stories / Louise Aronson.
Edition:	1st U.S. ed.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.
Description:	259 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:	Sixteen linked stories explore the marginalized humanity in communities, hospitals, and nursing homes in San Francisco, including an elderly Chinese immigrant who is forced to make a painful sacrifice and a young veteran whose injuries symbolize the rest of his life.
Subjects:	Physician and patient -- Fiction. Medical fiction, American. Short stories. San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Contents:	Snapshots from an institution -- An American problem -- Giving good death -- Heart failure -- Becoming a doctor -- After -- Twenty-five things I know about my husband's mother -- Soup or sex? -- Fires and flat lines -- The psychiatrist's wife -- Blurred boundary disorder -- Vital signs stable -- Days of awe -- Lucky you -- The promise -- A medical story.
LCCN:	2012018354
ISBN:	9781608198306 1608198308
Other Number:	793973829
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Control Number:	343005
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