Product Overview
In his first book, Dr. Hushang Payan told a series of sad and funny true stories about the experience of feeling like a lousy foreigner. Coming to the U.S. from Iran as a young man, he dressed differently, he spoke with an accent, his tastes and habits didnt conform. He was a stranger in a strange land.
Now, in Life Under the Microscope, Dr. Payan continues the stories where the first book left offhis many years of medical training are behind him and I soon realized that I was now responsible for my own livelihood and even for the lives of many patients! The way the sudden humor of that line undercuts any self-importance captures perfectly the tone of the whole book.
In the table of contents, the chapter headings are playful and commonplace, and they hook you with their bluntness:
Owning a Car in Manhattan
Kissing Disease
Nail
Upper Peninsula
Refrigerator
112 chapters in all112 stories, most of them only a few pages, each a hard, small gem, complete unto itself, but related to the unfolding story of Dr. Payans life as an accomplished and respected pathologist. And although this is a serious book, it is his comic sense and his delight in the ordinary that keep the reader entertained and amused.
