Living in the Doctor's Nest
by Anna-Karen Sorensen
This is a chapbook of stories 1-4, from the book, The Doctor's Nest, including “The Pearl,”
which is the fourth installment in the series. The Doctor's Nest is a compilation of stories about the life of a doctor who cares for extremely premature infants. As the stories unfold, we learn about the challenges that she faced as she began to practice in her field and how she ultimately fulfilled her goal of developing specialized units for the extremely premature newborn. Along the way, we get to know more about her family, lovers, and friends. We meet the nurses and respiratory therapists that provided the care, and we learn about the "scorpions," the obstacles that lay in wait to derail the process along the way. "The Pearl,” is the fourth installment and is included in this chapbook, later to be expanded to a full-length book with a year's worth of stories about this doctor's nest.
which is the fourth installment in the series. The Doctor's Nest is a compilation of stories about the life of a doctor who cares for extremely premature infants. As the stories unfold, we learn about the challenges that she faced as she began to practice in her field and how she ultimately fulfilled her goal of developing specialized units for the extremely premature newborn. Along the way, we get to know more about her family, lovers, and friends. We meet the nurses and respiratory therapists that provided the care, and we learn about the "scorpions," the obstacles that lay in wait to derail the process along the way. "The Pearl,” is the fourth installment and is included in this chapbook, later to be expanded to a full-length book with a year's worth of stories about this doctor's nest.
