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About the Author:
Don
Stewart has a bachelor’s degree in Biology and Art, with honors, from Birmingham-Southern College
Dr.
Stewart’s short stories have since been published in Pulse--voices from the heart of
medicine, The Dead
Mule School University of Alabama
Medical Alumni Association
For the past quarter century he has made his living as a
self-styled Visual Humorist, hammering words and pictures together at the DS
Art Studio Gallery in Birmingham: www.DSArt.com. You can also find
him at www.PastMedicalHistoryBook.com.
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Socialize with Don
About the Book:
Past Medical History is a compilation of short
stories chronicling the life of Dr. Don Stewart, who grew up with the singular
goal of becoming a physician, then quit the day he earned his medical license
to make a life and a living as an artist. It’s The Devil Wears Prada meets The
House of God, with a character who sees his own career circling the drain,
pronounces it DOA, and turfs himself to an art studio for treatment. It’s Patch Adams, with an attitude; The Things They Carried, dressed up in
scrubs and a white lab coat.
This
series of stories draws a clear picture of a doctor who recognized the pitfalls
of his chosen profession, discharged himself from the hospital, then took his
life in a more creative, and far healthier direction.
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Title: Past Medical History
Author: Don Stewart
Publisher: DSArt, LLC
Pages: 221
Language: English
Genre: Autobiography
Format: Paperback
Purchase at AMAZON
Author: Don Stewart
Publisher: DSArt, LLC
Pages: 221
Language: English
Genre: Autobiography
Format: Paperback
Purchase at AMAZON
Past Medical History is a compilation of short
stories chronicling the life of Dr. Don Stewart, who grew up with the singular
goal of becoming a physician, then quit the day he earned his medical license
to make a life and a living as an artist. It’s The Devil Wears Prada meets The
House of God, with a character who sees his own career circling the drain,
pronounces it DOA, and turfs himself to an art studio for treatment. It’s Patch Adams, with an attitude; The Things They Carried, dressed up in
scrubs and a white lab coat.
This
series of stories draws a clear picture of a doctor who recognized the pitfalls
of his chosen profession, discharged himself from the hospital, then took his
life in a more creative, and far healthier direction.
BOOK EXCERPT:
The man had nine tubes running into and out of his body the day he died.
Two IVs directed fluids and medications, drugs
flowing into one arm to keep his blood pressure up, in the other to coax it
back down, with antibiotics, anti-emetics, acid blockers, blood products and
pain killers piggy-backed onto Y-shaped access ports, or pumped in measured
doses through blue computerized boxes clamped to metal IV poles.
A third line penetrated deep into the man’s chest,
entering above the his collar bone, coursing through the great thoracic vessels
and the right-side chambers of his heart, its round balloon tip resting snugly
in the terminal arteries of his lungs. Above, a thin yellow feeding tube
emerged spaghetti-like from his nose, while down below a thick red rubber
catheter drained the man’s bladder into a bag hooked onto the side of his bed.
Another did what it could to channel the volumes of liquid feces that had
plagued this patient for too many days, and took up far too much of the
intensive care nurses’ valuable time in sanitary maintenance, skin care and
linen changes.
Clear plastic tubes the size of small garden hoses
exited either side of the patient’s chest, each connected to a low-suction
vacuum canister that functioned to keep his fragile lungs inflated – lungs that
had already popped like loose bubble-wrap from the air forced into them through
a similar tube that traversed the length of his throat. This was the tube he
had hoped to avoid. The one that just one week earlier he had made me promise, promise not to let anyone put into him…
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