There are essays on travel in dangerous territories, on men in prison, on extreme endurance races, on saccharine, on murder trials, on unusual diseases, on women and pain. “The Empathy Exams” bounces among topics. Her book isn’t, except in passing, a medical memoir.
In “The Empathy Exams,” her extraordinary new book of essays, she calls to mind writers as disparate as Joan Didion and John Jeremiah Sullivan as she interrogates the palpitations of not just her own trippy heart but of all of ours. “There was an extra electrical node,” her doctor explains, “sending out extra signals - beat, beat, beat - when it wasn’t supposed to.” She calls this her “tiny rogue beat box.” The medical name for her condition is SVT, or supraventricular tachycardia.
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