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    A Study Guide for Adam Haslett's "The Good Doctor"
    A Study Guide for Adam Haslett's "The Good Doctor"
    A Study Guide for Adam Haslett's "The Good Doctor"
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    A Study Guide for Adam Haslett's "The Good Doctor"

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    A Study Guide for Adam Haslett's "The Good Doctor," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535836944
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      A Study Guide for Adam Haslett's "The Good Doctor" - Gale

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      The Good Doctor

      Adam Haslett

      2002

      Introduction

      The Good Doctor by Adam Haslett is the second story in the collection You Are Not a Stranger Here, which appeared in 2002. The nine stories in this collection depict small moments in the lives of fully developed characters, some of whom are estranged or disturbed. Several deal with mental illness and several with male homosexuality. Haslett is as adept at locating his stories in England as he is with situating them in the United States, and regardless of the subject, his stories are written in a poised, elegant style. In The Good Doctor, a young psychiatrist drives to a remote house on the Nebraska prairie to evaluate a patient whose prescriptions need renewing. Within the framework of the psychological interview, Haslett examines various topics connected with drug addiction, trauma, grief, chronic rural poverty, and disillusionment. One point the story in its entirety seems to make is that federally funded medical programs in remote areas are ineffectual in delivering the necessary sustained support to people with chronic psychiatric and medical problems, problems which are themselves often caused by the very remoteness that obstructs the delivery of the needed services.

      Author Biography

      Adam Haslett was born on December 24, 1970, in Portchester, New York. He received his B.A. in 1993 from Swarthmore College. The following year he spent in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on a fellowship at the Fine Arts Center. While there he learned he had been accepted into the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He put his acceptance into the Yale University Law School on hold and moved to Iowa. He received his M.F.A. from Iowa in 1999.

      Next, he returned to his original goal and pursued a degree in law at Yale University. At the same time that he was studying at Yale, Haslett was publishing short stories. On the strength of reading one of them, an editor at Doubleday offered to publish a collection of stories: thus, the nine stories that came to make up You Are Not a Stranger Here, which includes The Good Doctor, were welcomed into print as a collection in 2002. This first book was well received: It was the

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