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Frank Huyler

Another “pitch-perfect book of short essays” (New York Times Book 
Review) from the acclaimed author of Blood of Strangers, this one 
exploring the contemporary practice of medicine from the perspective of a doctor 
with 25 years of experience in the ER.

In the 
late 1990s, a young physician in Albuquerque, New Mexico, published a stunning 
memoir of his experiences in the highly charged world of the ER. Presented in a 
series of powerful, poetic vignettes, The Blood of Strangers became an 
instant classic.

Now, over two decades later, Dr. Frank Huyler delivers another dispatch from 
the trenches—this time from the perspective of middle age. In portraits 
visceral, haunting, sometimes surreal, Huyler reveals the gritty reality of 
medicine practiced on the razor’s edge between life and death.

From the doomed, like the Iraq vet with a brain full of shrapnel, to the 
self-destructive, like the young woman who inserts a sewing needle into her 
heart, to the transcendent, like the homeless Navajo artist whose sketches charm 
the nurses, Huyler assembles a profound mosaic of human suffering and grace, 
complemented by episodes from his personal life: the hail that fell the night 
his wife gave birth, his drive through a snowstorm to see his father in a 
Colorado ER, the beautiful wedding of his childhood friend with terminal cancer. 
Melding hard-earned wisdom with a poet’s crystalline vision, Huyler evokes the 
awesome burden of responsibility, the exhaustion, the relief of a costume disco 
nurse party, and those rare occasions when the confluence of luck and science 
yield, in the author’s words, “moments of breathtaking greatness.” 

White Hot Light offers an unforgettable portrait of a field that 
illuminates society at its most vulnerable, and its most elemental.

Gary Bennett

Harper Perennial

White Hot Light: Twenty-Five Years in Emergency Medicine

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