Two of my stories -- Number 72 and I Should Not Have Rushed You Through the Rain -- are up at CONNOTATION PRESS. Flip sides of the same moment, the stories center around a patient's last meeting with his oncologist. Editor Meg Tuite (and author of the gripping Domestic Apparition) interviews me on the stories, inspired by my father's experience with his health care providers.
Thank you Meg for publishing my work. Peace...
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nice conversation and fine piece - kudos!
ReplyDeleteA wonderful interview. Very moving to know the story behind the stories. Both those pieces have stayed with me since the first time I read them. Some deep food for thought in them and in your interview.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great interview---thanks for sharing!
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I know exactly what you're talking about. It's always struck me as odd that when a person dies of basic old age in a hospital, their friends/relatives who were with them to the end can only focus in on those final moments confined to bed where they dissect the quality of the healthcare they received (often critically) so that the relatives themselves only regard them as a medical case and seem to forget the whole preceding rich life, which only reasserts itself long after the medical side has left their minds. The number of times I've heard angry relatives threaten to sue the hospital for some negligent aspect of care during those final moments.
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff. Marc Nash
Congrats on the publishing, Linda. It's interesting that my NaNo project starts out with a small similarity to your "Number 72" and how medical staff tend to identify people by numbers. It makes it easier for them, I suppose.
ReplyDeleteThanks all for popping by here and CP toread my words. Medicine and its practice is funny business, and one reason I did not pursue myself was the realization that in order to 'cure', patients had to be 'cut' into body parts, organs, and conditions, into managable bits, and that did not sit too well with me. Hurray for public health! peace...
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