A Life in Medicine by Robert Coles

Author:Robert Coles
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2011-08-10T16:00:00+00:00

Raymond Carver

A SMALL, GOOD THING

The agony of parents awaiting word of their child’s condition forms the heart of this piece by master storyteller Raymond Carver, one that poignantly illustrates the effect of a doctor’s well-intended optimism as it belies the medical crisis at hand.

Shortly after Ann Weiss has ordered a birthday cake for her son Scotty’s birthday party, Scotty is hit by a car and taken to the hospital. Life becomes a nightmare of waiting and dwindling hope, as the doctor’s initial diagnosis proves itself inaccurate. Carver’s story offers a complex examination of parents living the unimaginable, the inability of the hospital to assuage their suffering, and a surprisingly redemptive, unexpected conclusion: the “small, good thing” of the story’s title.

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