The Pen and the Stethoscope
Ed: Leah Kaminsky
Scribe Publishing 2010
ISBN: 9781921640735
$32.95
240 pp

This is a strange collection – an anthology of stories and essays linked only by the fact that all the writers are, or once were, doctors.  The nine non-fiction pieces hang together through their subject matter; however, only a few of the six fictional short stories obviously owe something to the medical training of their authors.  Nevertheless, every piece entertains or informs or both and I enjoyed them all.

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