{"_id":"64112a27f902f5be1c4d8d1b","title":"Doc Mellhorn and the Pearly Gates","author":"Stephen Vincent Benét","code":"doc-mellhorn-and-the-pearly-gates","words":7166,"publish_year":1938,"publish_source":"The Saturday Evening Post","image":"ford.jpg","image_alt":"A ford Model T parked on a rural road.","genres":["quirky","literary","fantasy"],"description":"Doc Mellhorn finds himself in the great above, but isn’t ready to put down his stethoscope and accept a life of leisure, so he drives away from the pearly gates towards the ‘other place’ in search for patients.","blurb":"“Of course, back on earth a lot of her patients died. But that was because when she didn’t like a patient, she poisoned him. Well, she can’t poison anybody here and I’ve kind of got her out of the notion of it anyway.”","rating":4,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}