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Perri Klass is a practicing pediatrician in Boston, and the Medical Director of Reach Out and Read, a national literacy program for children. Her books include Other Women's Children, a novel, Baby Doctor: A Pediatrician's Training, a collection of essays, and, most recently, Love and Modern Medicine, a collection of short stories. (Lines from One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr.
Perri Klass. Perri Klass is the author of books, essays, award-winning short stories, a novel, and numerous articles ranging from professional papers to popular journalism and travel pieces. Her 1987 book, A Not Entirely Benign Procedure, chronicled her medical school years; her 2007 book, Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor, looked at changes in medicine and medical education.
In her honest, riveting prose, Perri Klass -- writer, mother, and doctor -- takes readers through her extraordinary three years of internship and residency as a pediatrician in a Boston children's hospital. Responsible for newborns, the chronically ill, and the mysteriously sick, Klass set high standards for her own performance and for those who worked with her tiny charges.
I received a signed copy of this book from a friend a couple of years ago, and only started to really read it now. I was familiar with Perri Klass, having read some of her essays in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, as well as pieces published in some of the more consumer-oriented medical journals.
Perri Klass (born 1958) (1) is an American pediatrician and writer who has published extensively about her medical training and pediatric practice. Among her subjects have been the issues of women in medicine, relationships between doctors and patients, and children and literacy. She is the author of both fiction and nonfiction novels, stories, essays, and journalism. Klass is Professor of.
Wry, amusing, moving, and enlightening, these writings range from World War II to our day; they include offerings by Jamaica Kincaid, Melanie Falick, Elizabeth Zimmermann, Meg Swansen, Susan Gordon Lydon, Pam Allen, Lela Nargi, Perri Klass, Teva Durham, and many others. Artwork by Solveig Hisdal, fiber artists Debbie New and Karen Searle, and photographer Chris Hartlove, along with historical.
Perri Klass is professor of journalism and pediatrics at New York University. She is the national medical director of Reach Out and Read, a program that works through pediatric primary care to.