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Summary. PDF Cite. Set in the barren prairie of northeast Nebraska, "The Good Doctor" tells the story of an at-home interview between psychiatrist Frank Briggs and Mrs. Buckholdt, a...
by Adam Haslett. Start Free Trial. Summary. Themes. Characters. Critical Essays. Analysis. Teaching Guide. Characters. PDF Cite. Anne is a psychiatrist who went through residency with Frank...
Dive deep into Adam Haslett's The Good Doctor with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion.
- Introduction
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"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...
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 therehe learned he had been accepted into the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He put his acceptance i...
Set in the barren prairie of northeast Nebraska, "The Good Doctor" tells the story of an at-home interview between psychiatrist Frank Briggs and Mrs. Buckholdt, a patient who has been using sedatives and antidepressants for four years and who has recently missed several of her clinic appointments with her regular doctor. Young and somewhat idealist...
Anne
Anne is a psychiatrist who went through residency with Frank Briggs and visited him once in Ewing Falls, Nebraska. They had dated for six months but are now no longer a couple. Like Frank, Anne was trained in "biological psychiatry"; unlike him, she does not question this drug-based method for treating mental illness.
Dr. Frank Briggs
Frank Briggs, age thirty-two, is a new psychiatrist, having completed his residency just one year before this story begins. Now he is about to enter his second of three years as a volunteer with the National Health ServiceCorps, an agreement which entails his working in an underserved area in exchange for his medical school loans being repaid by the organization. Frank's immediate predicament is that the Congress has cut funds to the service, and while he is committed to this work contract, h...
Jack Buckholdt
Jack Buckholdt grew up in northeast Nebraska, married, got a house, a job at the bank, and for years harbored dreams of moving to California and owning a house with a view of the ocean. He told his wife they would someday have an orange tree in their yard and museums nearby for her to enjoy. Instead, the couple lived in the barren northeast Nebraska prairie, they had three children, Jack had his work at the bank, and years passed. Financial hard times hit, property was foreclosed, and Jack to...
Chemical Drug Use and Abuse
"The Good Doctor" is much concerned with drug use and abuse. Life in this rural, economically depressed Nebraska prairie offers little opportunity or hope, and drugs become the means by which people dull disappointment and disillusionment. Jack Buckholdt promised his wife they would leave for a better life in California; Mrs. Buckholdt promised Jason he would escape poverty. When as a little boy he would cry over trouble at school, she would soothe him with a fantasy about taking him across t...
Write a short storybased on a medical or psychological examination you have experienced, characterizing the doctor by details that slip out regarding his personal life. See if you can introduce ele...Research drug abuse among high school students in urban and rural areas over the past twenty years. Draw a chart indicating types of substances and rates of abuse in several different types of loca...Study the subject of domestic violence. Who in the family is most likely to become violent, and who is most likely to be injured? What are the long term effects on family relationships when domesti...Do some research on the National Health Service Corps, using its website as a starting place. Write a summary of the information you acquire about the service, the populations it serves, and financ...Setting
"The Good Doctor" is set in northeast Nebraska, near the small towns of Atkinson, Tilden, and Ewing. The Buckholdt family lives in a "white fifties prefab, sagged on one side" with "empty prairie stretching miles in every direction." The first thing Dr. Briggs notices on the property is "the skeleton of a Chevy Nova, grass to the windows." In this remote area, stuck in chronic poverty, this wreck of a car suggests a place from which there is no transportation or escape. Even the car's name li...
Allusion
An allusion is a reference to some work of art or historical event or person that lies beyond the present work; the effectiveness of an allusion depends on its being recognized by the reader. The allusion has significance of its own that is relevant to the present text; the connection between the present text and the allusion relies on the shared knowledge of the author and the reader. If something is mentioned in a work of literature, it is generally worthwhile to investigate the reference a...
Irony
One form of irony is the discrepancy between what is expected and what actually happens. Thedifference between what one anticipates, between what ordinarily happens, and what in this case unfolds draws the reader's attention to a central topic or problem in the story. In some ways, the interview in "The Good Doctor" reverses what conventionally happens during a psychological evaluation. It is conventional for the doctor to ask the questions, and the patient to answer them. The doctor is in ch...
National Health Service Corps
According to its website, the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) was established in 1972, as a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, a federally funded agency to address the medical and psychological needs of under-served populations, wherever they are found in the United States, from rural and mountainous areas to certain inner city communities. As of 2006, an estimated fifty million Americans are without access to healthcare services, including medical and psychologica...
Rural Substance Abuse and Poverty
Rural areas in the 1990s witnessed an increase in instances of substance abuse. According to a 2003 report published by Hazelden, rural youngsters were more likely to use some drugs than their urban counterparts. For years, many believed that drug abuse mostly occurred in urban settings and rural areas were relatively free of the problem. In fact, according to a report funded by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), illegal drug use was found to be higher among rural eighth graders than...
Adam Haslett's first book of short stories, You Are Not a Stranger Here, in which "The Good Doctor" appears, was viewed as a candidate for awards. The collection was a finalist for the 2002 National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist in 2003. For this work, Haslett won the L. L. Winship/PEN New EnglandAward in 2003. His collection...
Melodie Monahan
Monahan has a Ph.D. in English and operates an editing service, The Inkwell Works. In the following essay, Monahan explores setting as the inescapable trap of chronic rural poverty and drug addiction and the failure of the federal outreach program to address local needs as these are depicted in "The Good Doctor." In Adam Haslett's short story, "The Good Doctor," setting is both an historical and a geographical context, the decades-long persistent local economic depression and a history of fai...
Sep 13, 2022 · The Good Doctor by Adam Haslett – Summary. Set in the barren prairie of northeast Nebraska, “The Good Doctor” tells the story of an at-home interview between psychiatrist Frank Briggs and Mrs. Buckholdt, a patient who has been using sedatives and antidepressants for four years and who has recently missed several of her clinic appointments ...
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