{"product_id":"2940032843238","title":"Disease Beyond My Practice: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eDISEASE BEYOND MY PRACTICE--Stories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo one can survive a bi-polar world without a healthy dose of madness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn infectious disease doctor falls in love with a dope addict\/real-estate agent patient. A paranoid schizophrenic decides he must render himself sterile. A meth freak tries to destroy a trauma surgeon with a stolen tank. In a crazed universe, sometimes the only way to acquit oneself is through the insanity defense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these stories, characters discover the hoofbeats they hear may come, not from horses, but from zebras. A war correspondent with a spleen the size of a football returns home to get his first physical exam in a decade--and his doctor blows the diagnosis. A cardiac surgeon on safari, treating a patient dying from AIDS, finds enlightenment. One of a pair of Siamese twins seduces a psychiatrist, while the other empties his bank account.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMedicine is an art, not just a science. A doctor misjudges his son’s fastball and must learn to live within the limits of his own blind ambition. A man, confronting his checkered family history, must weigh the risks of donating half his liver to his brother. A plastic surgeon alters the appearance of a spy in a witness protection program and loses his clinic in the process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes, it is nature itself that heals. A teenager on a magical Minnesota lake confronts both his own mortality and a budding awareness of the opposite sex. A pre-med student finds solace in both music and orb-weaving spiders. A young doctor struggles to keep a child alive high in the Andes, where love can be as scarce as oxygen, or as common as a mystic stone ruin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe multiple ways people take ill--and become healed--may yet surprise, jaded as streaming media and 24-hour cable news have made us. Fiction, even as it entertains, can still lend insight into the hard-to-fathom depths of human suffering and rejuvenation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glenn Vanstrum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180032409840,"sku":"2940032843238","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940032843238_p0.jpg?v=1763642506","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940032843238","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}