Judith's Pavilion: The Haunting Memories of a Neurosurgeon

Marc Flitter, a neurosurgeon for twenty years, remembers the extraordinary people whose live and deaths have become part of his existence. He tells of lovely Anne, whose life is taken before he can shyly court her; Hampton, the medical school's beloved elevator operator whose brain surgery is botched by a well-meaning chief of surgery; and others, including Judith, the warm grandmother-like woman whose brain tumor leaves Dr. Flitter marked by the inadequacy of both medicine and comforting words to alleviate human pain. Set under the unblinking light of the operating room, these stories glow with a different kind of luminescence. SC, 221 pages.