Richard Selzer
American surgeon and author known for literary essays, short stories, and books about medicine and surgery (e.g., Mortal Lessons, Confessions of a Knife).
Books
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1. Letters To A Young Doctor
A series of candid, lyrical letters that use personal anecdotes and surgical cases to probe the craft and conscience of medicine, offering meditations on skill, uncertainty, suffering, mortality, and the intimate moral responsibilities of the physician while urging compassion, humility, and attention to the human stories behind each patient.
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