Richard Selzer

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Richard Selzer is a surgeon and author. Among his published books are:

Rituals of Surgery (1973)
Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery (1976)
Confessions of a Knife (1979)
Letters to a Young Doctor (1982)
Taking the World in for Repairs (1986)
Imagine a Woman (1990)
A Mile and a Half of Ink (1990)
Down from Troy: A Doctor Comes of Age (1992)
Raising the Dead: A Doctor’s Encounter with His Own Mortality (1993)
The Doctor Stories (1998)
The Exact Location of the Soul: New and Selected Essays (2001)

He was born and raised in Troy, NY. Down from Troy: A Doctor Comes of Age is his autobiography.

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