Frank Huyler, MD
Frank Huyler is an emergency physician living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the author of The Blood of Strangers.
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‘I Have to Send Anyone With COVID-Like Symptoms to the COVID Unit’
When a patient has a slight cough or fever, this ER doctor must put them with other COVID patients. But if they ultimately test negative, he will have exposed them for no reason.
Frank Huyler, MD
7.15.20
medicine
Coronavirus Has Yet to Reach My Corner of the Country. We're Not Ready
The real wave hasn't yet hit New Mexico, where I'm an ER doctor. But it will, and hospitals are moving way too slowly.
Frank Huyler, MD
3.23.20
Doctor's Note
When Your Young Patient Refuses Life-Saving Treatment
She had pushed a three-inch sewing needle into her heart some time ago, and the damage was starting to show.
Frank Huyler, MD
9.25.18
VICE TONIC
When There's Nothing More Your Doctor Can Do
Every shift in the ER can offer a chilling reminder of your own mortality. One doctor takes us inside a patient's final minutes.
Frank Huyler, MD
1.27.18
Doctor's Note
When Your Patient Is a Murderer
It was impossible to reconcile the woman on the gurney with what she had done.
Frank Huyler, MD
1.4.17
Hospital Confessions
When There's Nothing More Your Doctor Can Do
Every shift in the ER can offer a chilling reminder of your own mortality. One doctor takes us inside a patient's final minutes.
Frank Huyler, MD
11.23.16