Dancer in the Garden: The complete collection with 18 additional stories - Softcover

Kra, Siegfried

 
9780912887425: Dancer in the Garden: The complete collection with 18 additional stories
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0912887427 ISBN 13: 9780912887425
Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio, 2022

Synopsis

Kra uses storytelling to connect medicine with the human condition, resulting in tales of love and loss, triumph, and disillusionment. From post-war France and Switzerland to a modern private cardiology practice and the teaching hospitals at Yale, Kra diagnoses rare diseases, falls in love, and even survives a plane crash on a frozen lake. An exploration of the Golden Age of Medicine coupled with vivid moments of unusual, captivating stories with a cast of compelling characters. Now with 18 additional stories. "I take care of people's hearts so they can go on loving. I can think of no greater privilege."

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About the Author

SIEGFRIED KRA emigrated, with his family, from Danzig, Germany to New York in 1939. He attended CCNY, then went to medical school in France and Switzerland before completing his training at Yale. In his practice as a cardiologist, he has treated tens of thousands of patients. Kra has published over a dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction. In addition to medicine and writing, his passions include opera, growing orchids, and tennis, which he still plays weekly in his 90's. He also still teaches as an Associate Professor of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine and Quininipac University Netter School of Medicine. Kra has been an advocate for people, without prejudice for religion, gender, age, race, religion or politics for his entire medical life. He has been interviewed by CNN, ABC & CBS. For eights years, Kra was on NPR every Thursday from 1982 to 1994, He was on The Regis Show, Religious shows like Club 500, The Smithsonian in Washington and more, including lectures at libraries in NY.

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Publisher
Pleasure Boat Studio
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0912887427
ISBN 13 
9780912887425
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
306