May there be light. A quarter of a century in emergency medicine. Haler F.

Frank Hayler is a doctor of emergency assistance in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the author of the books “Blood of Strangers”, “The Laws of Invisible Things” and “The Right of Thirst”. His works appeared in Atlantic, The Georgia Review, Poetry and in many other publications.

The finalist of the Prize Yana Mikhalski.

In the late 90s, the young doctor from the city of Albuquerque published a collection of stories, Where emotionally described the beginning of his career in the ambulance. The sincere and touching book of the Blood of Strangers became a bestseller.

After two decades, Dr. Frank Hailer issues another report on his professional path, this time from the point of view of an experienced specialist with 25 years of experience. In the presented sketches - touching, tragicomic, sometimes even surrealistic - Hailer reveals the harsh reality of the work of doctors balancing on the verge of life and death.

describing the doomed veterinarian with many fragments in the brain, and desperately desperate , such as a young woman who inserts a needle into her heart, the doctor collects a puzzle of life from human suffering and grace, complementing the picture with episodes from her own fate. society in its most vulnerable and most sincere manifestations.